ASIC Verification Engineer (Dubai Office)

Evollabs Tech; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Evollabs Tech in Dubai seeks an experienced ASIC/SoC verification engineer to own end-to-end verification of critical subsystems, architect UVM environments, and map specs to assertions and checkers for fast tape-out.

You will co-sim with firmware, run emulation/FPGA prototypes, and drive coverage to closure using SystemVerilog/UVM, SVA, and industry simulators, collaborating with RTL, firmware, and DFT teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in ASIC/SoC verification with SystemVerilog/UVM from test plan to sign-off.
• Strong command of constrained-random stimulus, scoreboarding, coverage-driven verification, and SVA.
• Hands‑on with major simulators (VCS/Questa/Xcelium) and regression/CI tooling.
• Familiarity with standard protocols (AMBA, AXI, APB, AHB) and industrial VIPs
• Experience verifying complex IP/subsystems (multi-core compute, NoC/coherency, PCIe/Ethernet/HBM/DDR/UCIe).
• Proficient in scripting for automation (Python/TCL/Make) and building reusable verification components.
• Solid understanding of SoC fundamentals: resets, clocking, CDC/RDC, back‑pressure/flow control, performance counters.

Responsibilities

• Own block-to-subsystem verification: author verification plans from specs, define stimulus/coverage strategy, and deliver sign-off with data (functional/code/assertion coverage).
• Build scalable UVM environments: agents, monitors, scoreboards, sequences, reference models (C++/Python/DPI), protocol checkers, and reusable components.
• Exercise real workloads: co-sim with firmware/drivers, run emulation/FPGA prototypes, and correlate performance/behavior with architectural models.
• Apply assertions & formal: write SVA, run formal where appropriate (protocol/liveness/safety), and integrate results into overall coverage.
• Close quality gates: lint/CDC/RDC verification collaboration, gate-level/reset/power-up scenarios, low‑power (UPF) intent checks.
• Harden regressions: own CI pipelines, randomized/constrained tests, triage failures, root‑cause with RTL/design, and track fixes to closure.
• Interface & document: keep specs, test plans, coverage dashboards, and bug reports clear for Architects, RTL, Firmware/Drivers, and DFT/PD teams.

Skills

SystemVerilog/UVM

Constrained-random stimulus

Scoreboarding

SVA

CI tooling

Python scripting

RTL collaboration

Tools

VCS

Questa

Xcelium

Python

TCL

Make

Job description

Your Mission

Own the end-to-end verification of critical ASIC subsystems—from compute pipelines and high-speed I/O to interconnects and multi-die coherency. You'll architect UVM environments and golden reference models, turn specs into assertions and checkers, drive coverage to closure, and tie in emulation/FPGA and SW-in-the-loop to catch bugs before tape-out. This is where one missed corner case can cost millions—finding it early keeps our AI silicon on schedule and on target.

Responsibilities

• Own block-to-subsystem verification: author verification plans from specs, define stimulus/coverage strategy, and deliver sign-off with data (functional/code/assertion coverage).
• Build scalable UVM environments: agents, monitors, scoreboards, sequences, reference models (C++/Python/DPI), protocol checkers, and reusable components.
• Exercise real workloads: co-sim with firmware/drivers, run emulation/FPGA prototypes, and correlate performance/behavior with architectural models.
• Apply assertions & formal: write SVA, run formal where appropriate (protocol/liveness/safety), and integrate results into overall coverage.
• Close quality gates: lint/CDC/RDC verification collaboration, gate-level/reset/power-up scenarios, low‑power (UPF) intent checks.
• Harden regressions: own CI pipelines, randomized/constrained tests, triage failures, root‑cause with RTL/design, and track fixes to closure.
• Interface & document: keep specs, test plans, coverage dashboards, and bug reports clear for Architects, RTL, Firmware/Drivers, and DFT/PD teams.

You'll Collaborate With Silicon architects (clarifying intent and performance targets), RTL designers (debug and ECOs), firmware and Linux driver teams (HW/SW co-verification), performance architects (workload traces and counters), and EDA/CAD (flows, regressions, metrics) to ensure first-pass silicon success.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years in ASIC/SoC verification with SystemVerilog/UVM (ownership from test plan to sign-off).
• Strong command of constrained-random stimulus, scoreboarding, coverage-driven verification, and SVA.
• Hands‑on with major simulators (e.g., VCS/Questa/Xcelium) and regression/CI tooling.
• Familiarity with standard protocols (AMBA, AXI, APB, AHB) and industrial VIPs
• Experience verifying complex IP/subsystems (at least one of: multi-core compute, NoC/coherency, high‑speed I/O like PCIe, Ethernet 100/400G, HBM/DDR, UCIe).
• Proficient in scripting for automation (Python/TCL/Make) and building reusable verification components.
• Solid understanding of SoC fundamentals: resets, clocking, CDC/RDC, back‑pressure/flow control, performance counters.

Preferred (Nice-to-Haves)

• Emulation/FPGA prototyping (Palladium/Zebu/Veloce; Xilinx/Intel) and SW‑in‑the‑loop setups.
• Formal verification experience (JasperGold/VC Formal) and assertion methodology leadership.
• DFT/DFD awareness and post-silicon bring‑up experience.
• Exposure to AI accelerator domains (systolic/dataflow, memory hierarchies, tiling) and traffic modeling.
• Experience building coverage dashboards and integrating verification metrics into CI/CD.
• Experience with C/C++/DPI for RTL Co-Simulation.