Design Verification Team Leader

Renesas Electronics; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in embedded semiconductor solutions is seeking a Design Verification Team Lead in Edinburgh. The role requires extensive experience in digital and mixed-signal design verification, team management, and the implementation of verification strategies. Join Renesas to shape the future with innovative solutions enhancing quality and performance.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Employee Resource Groups

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in design verification, including leadership roles.
• Knowledge of mixed-signal ASIC architectures and formal verification techniques.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of verification engineers and oversee verification tasks.
• Develop and implement comprehensive verification plans.
• Provide interfaces to customers and report progress on verification efforts.

Skills

Proficiency in verification languages

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Leadership abilities

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Job description

The Design Verification Team Lead is responsible for leading the verification efforts of complex digital and mixed-signal designs, ensuring they meet all functional and performance requirements. This role involves managing a team of verification engineers, developing and reviewing verification plans, and collaborating closely with design and architecture teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Management: Manage, supervise, and mentor a team of verification engineers; distributing and monitoring day-to-day tasks as well as short and long term technical and career goals.
2. Verification Planning: Develop and implement comprehensive verification plans and strategies.
3. Execution:Oversee the execution of verification tasks, including functional and formal verification.
4. Communication:Provide interface to customers, reporting progress and metrics in weekly calls and ad-hoc face to face meetings.
5. Collaboration:Work closely with design and micro-architecture teams to understand functional and performance/parametric specifications.
6. Quality Assurance: Ensure thorough verification coverage and adherence to industry standards, as well as ensure the team follows expected company procedures, practices & flows.
7. Problem Solving: Identify and resolve verification issues, providing technical guidance and support.
8. Documentation:Maintain detailed documentation of verification processes, results, and methodologies.
9. Continuous Improvement: Promote best practices and continuous improvement within the verification team.

Qualifications & Experience

1. Education: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
2. Experience: Extensive experience in design verification, including team and/or project leadership roles.
3. Skills: Proficiency in verification languages (SystemVerilog, UVM), strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and leadership abilities. Knowledge of mixed-signal ASIC architectures, real number modelling, constrained random, assertions, gate-level simulations, functional/code coverage, and formal verification techniques.

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.

With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’

At Renesas, you can:

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure.

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.