Sr. Manager, Design Verification

Analog Devices; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 8,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Analog Devices, Inc. is seeking a Senior Verification Manager for Automotive Connectivity SoCs (E2B) in Hyderabad.

You will lead a team of verification engineers responsible for development and verification of next-generation automotive connectivity SoCs, combining strong people leadership with deep technical expertise. You will define verification strategies, drive coverage, tapeouts, and ensure compliance with automotive quality standards while collaborating with architecture, firmware, and

Qualifications

• Experience verifying complex SoCs with embedded processors and memory hierarchies.
• Proven tapeout records in advanced semiconductor environments.
• Strong SystemVerilog and UVM expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of verification engineers across multiple automotive SoC programs.
• Define verification methodologies, best practices, and reusable infrastructure.
• Drive hiring, career development, performance management, and technical growth.
• Manage project execution, resource planning, risk assessment, and schedules.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL design, firmware, validation, applications, and product teams.
• Ensure verification activities satisfy automotive development requirements, including safety processes.

Skills

SoC verification

Processor verification

SystemVerilog

UVM

DPI

Tools

DPI

UVM

Job description

About Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI ) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, AI, and software technologies into solutions that combat climate change, reliably connect humans and the world, and help drive advancements in automation and robotics, mobility, healthcare, energy and data centers. With revenue of more than $11 billion in FY25, ADI ensures today's innovators stay Ahead of What's Possible. Learn more at www.analog.com and on LinkedIn and X .

Senior Verification Manager - Automotive Connectivity SoCs (E2B)

About the Role

As a Senior Verification Manager at Analog Devices, you will lead a team of verification engineers responsible for the development and verification of next-generation automotive connectivity SoCs based on E2B technology. The role combines strong people leadership with deep technical expertise in complex SoC verification, enabling the successful delivery of safety-critical automotive products.

You will define verification strategies and execution plans for highly integrated SoCs incorporating embedded processors, communication subsystems, firmware, security functions, and mixed-signal components. Working closely with architecture, design, firmware, functional safety, and program management teams, you will ensure robust verification coverage, successful tapeouts , and compliance with automotive quality standards.

This position requires a hands‑on technical leader who can guide teams through complex verification challenges while driving organizational excellence in verification methodologies, automation, and execution.

Key Responsibilities

Technical and Organizational Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of verification engineers across multiple automotive SoC programs.


• Establish verification methodologies, best practices, and reusable infrastructure across projects.


• Drive hiring, career development, performance management, and technical growth within the verification organization.


• Manage project execution, resource planning, risk assessment, and verification schedules.

SoC Verification Strategy

• Define and oversee verification strategies for complex automotive SoCs containing embedded processors, firmware, security features, communication controllers, DMA engines, memory subsystems, and mixed-signal IP.


• Establish verification plans, coverage goals, and sign-off criteria aligned with product and safety requirements.


• Drive verification closure through coverage-driven methodologies, assertions, formal verification, and software-driven verification techniques.

Automotive Connectivity and E2B Verification

• Lead verification activities for E2B communication technology and associated protocol implementations.


• Ensure robust validation of protocol compliance, interoperability, error handling, diagnostics, timing behavior, and system-level performance.


• Collaborate with architecture and firmware teams to ensure seamless hardware-software integration and protocol deployment.

Functional Safety and Quality

• Ensure verification activities satisfy automotive development requirements, including ISO 26262 processes and safety mechanisms verification.


• Support safety analysis activities, fault injection campaigns, safety collateral generation, and traceability requirements.


• Establish metrics and quality indicators to measure verification effectiveness and product readiness.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with architecture, RTL design, firmware, validation, applications, and product teams throughout the product lifecycle.


• Participate in technical reviews and project milestones from architecture definition through silicon validation.


• Drive resolution of complex cross-functional issues impacting schedules, quality, or technical execution.

Must‑Have Skills

SoC Verification Expertise

• Extensive experience verifying complex SoCs containing embedded processors, memory hierarchies, interconnects, DMA engines, interrupts, security modules, and communication subsystems.


• Proven experience delivering successful SoC tapeouts in advanced semiconductor development environments.

Processor-Based Verification

• Strong experience verifying microprocessor-based SoCs.


• Experience with RISC-V processor architectures strongly preferred.


• Understanding of privilege modes, exception handling, memory protection, caches, debug infrastructure, and firmware interactions.

SystemVerilog and UVM

• Expert-level knowledge of SystemVerilog and UVM.


• Proven experience architecting large-scale reusable verification environments and verification IP.


• Experience defining organization-wide verification methodologies and verification frameworks.

DPI and Hardware-Software Co-Verification

• Strong experience developing and maintaining C/ SystemVerilog DPI models and interfaces. Experience integrating reference models, firmware components, transaction-level models, and softw