Principal Design Verification Engineer Toronto, Ontario, Canada

OptiRoi Media; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Toronto is searching for a Principal Design Verification Engineer to join their innovative team. This role emphasizes experience in verification for complex SoC designs and programming skills in C/C++. The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background in electrical engineering and proven experience in a collaborative environment. This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and contribute to product advancements in a dynamic setting.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in SoC products for Server, Storage, or Networking.
• Authorized to work in Canada and able to start immediately.

Responsibilities

• Develop test plans and sequences in UVM for RTL verification.
• Work collaboratively with RTL designers to debug failures.
• Prioritize multiple tasks and prepare for customer meetings.

Skills

Verification in UVM

C / C++ programming

Scripting (Perl / Python)

SoC verification

Debugging

Education

Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering

Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Astera Labs is a global leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions that unlock the full potential of AI and cloud infrastructure. Our Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates PCIe, CXL, and Ethernet semiconductor-based solutions and the COSMOS software suite of system management and optimization tools to deliver a software-defined architecture that is both scalable and customizable. Inspired by trusted relationships with hyperscalers and the data center ecosystem, we are an innovation leader delivering products that are flexible and interoperable. Discover how we are transforming modern data-driven applications at www.asteralabs.com .

Job Description

We are looking for Principal Design Verification Engineers with proven experience in all aspects of verification in UVM and C / C++. The candidate must have experience using high level programming languages such as C / C++ to communicate with System Verilog and / or UVM based environments to aid RTL simulation, CoSimulation and Emulation.

Responsibilities

• Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. At minimum, a Bachelor’s in EE is required, and a Master’s is preferred.
• 8 years’ experience supporting or developing complex SoC / silicon products for Server, Storage, and / or Networking applications.
• Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, to plan and prepare for customer meetings in advance, and to work with minimal guidance and supervision.
• Entrepreneurial, open-mind behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act fast with the customer in mind!
• Authorized to work in Canada and start immediately.

Required Experience

• Experience with integrating C / C++ in System Verilog environments using DPI / PLI.
• Ability to use scripting tools (Perl / Python) to automate verification infrastructure.
• Experience in developing infrastructure and tests in a hybrid directed and constrained random environments.
• Must be able to work independently to develop test-plans, and related test-sequences in UVM to generate stimuli and work collaboratively with RTL designers to debug failures.
• Develop user-controlled random constraints in transaction-based verification methodology. Experience writing assertions, cover properties and analyzing coverage data.
• Must have prior experience using Verification IPs from 3rd party vendors for communication protocols such as PCI-Express (Gen-3 and above), Ethernet, Infiniband, DDR, NVMe, USB, etc.
• Develop VIP abstraction layers to simplify and scale verification deployments.

Preferred Experience

• S / W debugging for SoC based designs in the area of kernel / device-drivers / u-boot.
• Physical Layer, Link Layer and Transaction Layer verification expertise in PCIe protocol.
• Experience in memory technologies like DDR4 / DDR5 / HBM.
• Experience with FPGA-based verification / emulation.

We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.

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