Senior ASIC Design Verification Engineer, Compute DSP/AI Processors (multiple levels)

MaC VC; Markham; On-site; CAD 185,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Canada ULC in Markham is seeking ASIC Design Verification Engineers to join our tight-knit ASIC IP team. You will verify complex IP blocks using UVM, write tests in SystemVerilog, and collaborate with Design to close coverage.

Open to Jr, Sr, or Staff levels; minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field with 4+ years in ASIC verification, plus experience with UVM and Python scripts.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of ASIC verification experience
• UVM, assertions, coverage-driven verification experience
• Scripting in Python or CShell

Responsibilities

• Verify a complex IP block using UVM
• Resolve architecture/design/verification problems with minimal supervision
• Collaborate with Design to test and debug and close coverage on the design
• Modify testbench components to verify new features
• Write tests in SystemVerilog
• Create functional coverage and assertions in SystemVerilog
• Regression maintenance and triaging of test failures
• Contribute to testbench architecture and optimization
• Contribute to testplan and verification methodology
• Support integration testing of the design
• Performance testing

Skills

Strong problem solving and analytical

Excellent communication

Self-motivated team player

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science or Engineering

Master’s degree in Science or Engineering

PhD in Science or Engineering

Tools

Python

CShell

SystemVerilog

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary

Do you ever wonder when connected devices become thinking devices? Be part of the group that is working on technology that will bring “Cognition” to all connected devices: That means devices that don’t just react to their surroundings, they interact with the world.

We are a compact, tightly knit ASIC IP team of architects, design, and verification engineers. We create HW IP in the heart of the Snapdragon DSP Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that works in coordination with the other NPU components to accelerate AI machine learning, video and other dsp applications. We’re continuously evolving and improving our design and verification architectures to tackle complex engineering problems. To achieve the high standards of Qualcomm products, our team members contribute with a variety of skills and participate in many aspects of the design, verification, and final product evaluation processes.

We are looking for few good ASIC Design Verification Engineers to be part of our team to innovate and design leading edge Qualcomm Snapdragon DSP processors that will empower AI and video processing applications and products. We are open to all levels of applicants; the role (Jr, Sr., Staff) and responsibility will be commensurate with experience.

As Part Of Our Team Your Responsibilities Would Include

• Verification of a complex IP block using UVM methodology
• Resolving architecture, design, or verification problems by applying sound ASIC engineering practices with minimal supervision
• Collaborating closely with the Design team to test, debug and close coverage on the design
• Modifying testbench components such as scoreboard, agents, sequences, to verify new features
• Writing tests in SystemVerilog
• Writing functional coverage and assertions using SystemVerilog
• Regression maintenance and triaging of test failures
• Contributing to testbench architecture and optimization
• Contributing to testplan implementation and verification methodology
• Supporting integration testing of the design
• Performance testing

Qualifications

• Strong problem solving and analytical thinking skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-motivated, goal oriented, team player

New Grad

• Bachelors - Engineering, Computer Engineering
• Understanding of digital logic
• Understanding of objected oriented programming concepts
• some design or DV experience, whether in work, co-op, or coursework

Senior Or Above

• 2+ years of direct experience in ASIC verification
• Experience with verification methodology (UVM, assertions, coverage-driven constrained-random verification)
• Experience with scripting languages (Python, CShell)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR Master’s degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits

$129,600.00 - $179,600.00 The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer.

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