Engineer, Digital Design Verification

Sierra Wireless; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 118,830 - 142,597; Full time

Job summary

Sierra Wireless in Ottawa is looking for a skilled individual to join their Digital Design group. This role involves functional verification of high-speed digital circuits and behavioral modeling in a collaborative team environment. Candidates should have a B.Sc. in Electrical or Computer Engineering and significant experience in digital silicon development.

The position focuses on ensuring design meets customer requirements while providing guidance and technical support within the team. A reasonable salary estimate for this position ranges from $85,000 to $102,000.

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant industry experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Functional verification of high-speed digital circuits.
• Behavioral modeling of analog circuits.
• Create product and technical documents.
• Prepare project plans and schedules.

Skills

UVM, OVM, AVM, or VMM methodologies

SystemVerilog

Python, TCL, Perl, C

Digital verification methods

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Education

B.Sc. degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Unix/Linux operating systems

Job description

Location

Ottawa (Onsite)

Job Summary

Semtech’s Signal Integrity Product Business Unit delivers high performance Signal Integrity ICs for data communications and video broadcast industries. This role offers a rare opportunity to join a highly integrated and very collaborative group of digital, analog, and physical designers, to deliver highly integrated mixed signal ICs.

As a key member of our Digital Design group, you will be working in a team environment contributing to development of advanced digital subsystems within mixed signal ICs. This versatile position will provide exposure to all areas of digital silicon development including definition, design, verification and implementation. As a member of the verification group and project team, you will provide high quality work and be accountable for helping the team meet its project milestones and objectives.

This position requires someone with a high energy level, strong communication skills and ability to work well as a part of a skilled development team.

Responsibilities

• Functional verification of high-speed digital circuits using a constrained random verification methodology (50%)
• Behavioral modeling of analog circuits and mixed level simulation of analog/digital circuits (10%)
• Create product and technical documents (5%)
• Prepare project plans and schedules (2%)
• Provide technical guidance of verification tasks and resources within a project team (5%)
• Work with analog engineers, firmware engineers, system engineers and marketing to ensure the design meets all customer and performance requirements (8%)
• Work with Validation, Test and Product Engineers to support the validation and qualification of the end product (5%)
• Provide leadership, guidance and mentoring to other Engineers (5%)
• Continual improvement of design verification and productivity. Review and enhance verification methodology (10%)

Minimum Qualifications

• A B.Sc. degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and minimum 5+ years relevant industry experience
• Knowledge in constrained random verification using UVM, OVM, AVM, or VMM methodologies.
• Knowledge and/or experience with object oriented languages; SystemVerilog is preferred.
• Experience with related programming/scripting languages (i.e. Python, TCL, Perl, C.)
• Working knowledge of PC and Unix/Linux operating systems.
• Knowledge of digital verification methods.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and team skills.
• Self-motivated and creative.
• Well organized, thorough, and detail oriented.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize multiple simultaneous responsibilities.

The intent of this job description is to describe the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be required to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically included in this description.

All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

We may leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to enhance efficiency during candidate screening, assessment, and recruitment. Final hiring decisions remain with our Hiring Teams, not AI systems.

A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $85,000-$102,000. There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base salary, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education and experience, as well as job location and the value of other elements of an employee’s total compensation package.