CPU Processor Power Management Verification Engineer

Summary

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In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort collaborating with many teams, with a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. We are looking for a strong candidate to join our processor verification team focusing on Power Management and Clock Control verification.

Description

As a CPU Processor Power Management Verification Engineer, you will have the responsibilities as follows:

• Work closely with architecture and RTL designers on verifying the functionality correctness of the Power Management and Clock Control logic
• Develop and execute test plans and schedules for the power management and clock control logic
• Develop tests in Assembly, Scripts, System Verilog, or vectors according to test plans to drive testing in simulation and emulation environments
• Root cause failures and propose potential solution to the design team
• Work with silicon bringup team on developing tests that work in the emulation and FPGA environments. Aid silicon debug in related part of the design
• Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage to ensure all the test cases in the test plans are covered
• Develop checkers or Verilog/System Verilog-base transactor to verify the design
• Write assertions and apply formal verification to the design

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

Experience in digital logic, micro-processor architecture, or power management architecture

Experience with digital design verification including Verilog/System-Verilog based testbenches and transactors checkers

Experience with design verification environments like random constraint verification or UVM base testbenches

Programming skills in Perl or Python

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree preferred

In depth knowledge of power management architecture and design techniques

Experience in system Verilog assertions or silicon bringup or UPF and low power simulation

Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal verification

Advanced programming skills such as object orientated programming or CPU assembly language is a plus

Ability to independently come up with design verification testbenches and environments and solve complex design verification problems

Should be an extraordinary teammate with excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex design issues during verification effort

Be able to create and follow detailed work schedules and work independently on the verification efforts for a block/area of the design