Digital Verification Engineer: Crypto & AI Security

NXP Semiconductors NV; Vlaams-Brabant; On-site; EUR 57,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors NV is expanding its Crypto & Security Competence Centre team to tackle next-gen security technologies. You will verify digital hardware architectures and develop robust verification environments for secure SoCs and cryptographic accelerators.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted verification approaches and high-visibility projects, offering opportunities to shape verification methodologies and tooling within CCCS.

Qualifications

• BSc. or MSc. degree in electronics or electrical engineering.
• Some experience with SystemVerilog for testbench development and verification.
• Some experience in UVM, including component creation, sequences, drivers, monitors, and scoreboards.
• Solid understanding and practical use of Constrained Random Verification techniques.
• Experience with Metrics-Driven Verification, including functional coverage and verification planning.
• Ability to write SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) for protocol and design checking.
• Demonstrated success in achieving Coverage Closure across functional and code coverage metrics.
• Experience analysing coverage results and refining test strategies to close gaps.
• Strong debugging skills across simulations and complex verification environments.
• Knowledge of Formal Verification methods would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Verification of digital hardware architectures.
• Creating, reviewing, and maintaining verification plans, and tracking verification progress.
• Specifying and developing verification strategies, tests, and environments for security features and hardware co-processors.
• Working with emerging verification methodologies and introducing them into existing verification flows.

Skills

SystemVerilog

UVM

Constrained Random Verification

Metrics-Driven Verification

SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA)

Coverage Closure

Debugging across simulations

Formal Verification

Education

BSc./MSc. in Electronics or Electrical Engineering

Job description

NXP Semiconductors NV is expanding its Crypto & Security Competence Centre team to tackle next-gen security technologies. You will verify digital hardware architectures and develop robust verification environments for secure SoCs and cryptographic accelerators.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted verification approaches and high-visibility projects, offering opportunities to shape verification methodologies and tooling within CCCS.