Senior ASIC/SoC Verification Engineer (12+ Month Contract)

Us Tech Solutions; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

US Tech Solutions is seeking an experienced verification engineer in Santa Clara, CA for a contract role with 12+ months duration. You will verify blocks of ASICs/IP cores for CPU/GPU development, documenting test plans and executing directed and constrained-random tests in a Linux environment.

The role requires 5-7 years in ASIC verification or hardware-oriented software, strong C/C++ skills, and familiarity with Verilog/SystemVerilog/SystemC.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of proven verification experience on large ASIC development projects or software/firmware experience in a hardware development setting.
• Strong background in C/C++ development in a Linux Environment.
• Strong debug skills and experience with debug tools such as Gdb, Valgrind.
• Proficient in Object Oriented programming, STL, computer architecture and data structures.
• Knowledge of Perl and Makefiles.
• Experience in Verilog/SystemVerilog/SystemC, preferred.
• Experience in C/Verilog environment using DPI/PLI, preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the functional verification of a block(s) of complex ASICs and/or IP cores for a combined CPU/GPU development effort.
• Be part of a team of design and verification engineers, working closely with other team members to understand and verify the functionality of a given design element within the context of the block, chip and overall system.
• Be responsible for carefully documenting and executing test plan(s) consisting of directed and constrained-random tests to be run during simulation.
• Be expected to adopt the evolving verification methodologies used in the industry to functionally verify increasingly more complex SoC designs within aggressive, market-driven schedules, and work within the existing verification infrastructure on currently active projects.
• Be familiar with hardware modeling and/or assertion-based verification methods.

Skills

C/C++ development

Linux environment

GDB

Valgrind

Object oriented programming

STL

Computer architecture

Data structures

Perl

Makefiles

Verilog/SystemVerilog/SystemC

DPI/PLI in C/Verilog

Tools

GDB

Valgrind

Perl

Makefiles

Job description

US Tech Solutions is seeking an experienced verification engineer in Santa Clara, CA for a contract role with 12+ months duration. You will verify blocks of ASICs/IP cores for CPU/GPU development, documenting test plans and executing directed and constrained-random tests in a Linux environment.

The role requires 5-7 years in ASIC verification or hardware-oriented software, strong C/C++ skills, and familiarity with Verilog/SystemVerilog/SystemC.