Senior Digital Verification Design Engineer

Overview

The Sony Europe Technology Development Centre (EUTDC) is an R&D Integrated Circuit Design Centre with a mission to develop next-generation imaging and sensing solid-state devices from initial idea to technology proof-of-concept demonstrators, contributing to Sony Semiconductor Solutions products for the mobile market.

We are seeking a skilled and expert Senior Digital Design Verification Engineer to join our Digital Design team. The role focuses on Digital Design Verification of top-level and IPs, coordinating verification contributors, and shaping the verification methodology. This position requires tight collaboration with the design team, coordination of verification activities (potentially with external engineers and contractors), and alignment with other European and Japanese centers on methodology improvements.

You Will

• Lead Digital Design Verification projects, plan and organize work for contributors, and report progress to managers.
• Develop and consolidate new design verification flows to advance state-of-the-art methodology and increase efficiency across sites.
• Analyze design specifications to create comprehensive verification plans for complex blocks.
• Maintain a digital regression environment and analyze code and functional coverage.
• Debug tests autonomously and communicate with designers as needed.
• Write, integrate, and debug analogue models to support AMS verification teams.
• Contribute to verification methodologies for imaging systems and system model integration (e.g., SystemC).
• Apply Continuous Integration concepts and workflows (e.g., Jenkins).

You Have

• A background in technical, electronics, semiconductor, or physics, with a PhD / MSc in Engineering or Physics or equivalent experience.
• Solid experience in the design and verification domain, preferably with CMOS Image Sensors.
• Excellent expertise in UVM / digital verification methodology.
• Proficient in common scripting languages (Python, Perl, Tcl / shell, Makefile, etc.).
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Experience working with multi-ethnic, cross-functional, and remote teams.
• Fluent English.

Your new office

Trento - European Technology Development Centre (EUTDC) — Surrounded by Dolomite Alps, located in Trento (one of the top cities for life quality in Italy). The site sits in a scientific ecosystem where universities, research institutes, and companies collaborate on imaging and sensing solid-state devices. The office offers views of the landscape, a break room with free hot drinks, and a canteen. The team is an international community with collaborative culture.

Life at Sony

We offer competitive salaries and benefits with established benchmarking. We support a healthy work-life balance with hybrid and flexible working policies. We foster a positive community focused on respect, collaboration, and innovation.

We celebrate colleagues who make a difference via our recognition platform. We provide access to services and platforms for wellbeing. We listen to our people, respect their suggestions, and act on them. We also offer volunteering allowances for staff to support causes they care about.

You can build your career with a range of learning and personal development programs, and we encourage mobility to explore roles in different countries with support from a mobility team.

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We promote equity, inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We seek diverse backgrounds and perspectives to stimulate innovation and contribute to Sony’s purpose — to create emotion through creativity and technology. Bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate with respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams across Europe drive our business, and we embrace the differences that make us original and unique. With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe serves consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our laboratories research and develop new technologies to contribute to Sony and broader societal aims.

Bring your passion, creativity, and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For accommodation requests, please contact us by email or by mail to Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us, please indicate the position you are applying for and the accommodation required.