Principal Design Verification Engineer

The candidate will work as a design verification engineer for wireless communication ASICs development in Pune, India.

You will be in the center of the organization impacting and influencing many cross-functional teams.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Maintain and develop SystemVerilog/UVM methodology test bench within digital IP blocks, including circuit calibration, DSP, CPU subsystems.
• Create constrained random stimulus, write checkers and assertions. Analyze simulation results and debug/root cause issues.
• Verify power intent through use of methodologies like UPF.
• Develop scripts needed to improve efficiency of tasks.
• Work closely with digital IP design team to develop comprehensive test strategies to validate use cases.
• Use agentic AI tools to reduce turnaround time, improve design quality, and enable intelligent automation across the silicon development lifecycle.

Minimum requirements:

BSEE or equivalent required, MSEE is a plus, with 5+ years of Hardware Engineering experience in following areas:

• Strong working knowledge of SystemVerilog for test bench development.
• UVM working experience to develop scalable and portable test-benches.
• Deep knowledge of one of the scripting languages: Python, Perl, Tcl.
• Proven experience with verification methodologies and EDA tools such as digital simulators, waveform viewers, build/run automation, gate level simulations.
• Good communication skills, can-do attitude. Acts independently for problem solving.

Strongly desired:

• Working knowledge of C/C++ is a plus.
• Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal and assertions is a plus.
• In-depth knowledge of digital logic design, micro-processor, debug feature, and DFT architecture and microarchitecture.
• Good Understanding of CPU architectures and CPU micro-architectures.
• Experience with communication chips is a plus plus.

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