Senior Digital Design Verification Engineer

Renesas Electronics; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics seeks a Senior Digital Design Verification Engineer to own verification of complex power-management SoCs, combining digital control, telemetry, fault management, and configurable peripherals for AI and enterprise systems.

You will develop and maintain SystemVerilog/UVM environments, create constrained-random tests, drive coverage closure, and work with architecture, RTL, firmware, and validation teams to deliver robust, bug-free silicon.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant digital design verification experience.
• Ownership of a complex block, subsystem, or major feature from verification planning through closure.
• Strong proficiency in SystemVerilog, UVM, constrained random verification, functional coverage, and SystemVerilog Assertions.
• Experience translating specifications into test plans, test scenarios, checkers, scoreboards, assertions, coverage models, and closure criteria.
• Hands-on experience developing and debugging reusable UVM environments and analyzing complex regression failures.
• Strong RTL and testbench debug skills, with the ability to distinguish design, environment, test, firmware, and specification issues.
• Working knowledge of digital design fundamentals, including state machines, clocks, resets, interrupts, register interfaces, memories, and clock-domain crossings.
• Proficiency in Linux and at least one scripting language such as Python, Bash, Perl, or Tcl.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across architecture, design, firmware, analog, validation, and systems teams.

Responsibilities

• Own verification of complex digital blocks or major SoC features from requirements analysis through coverage closure.
• Develop feature-based verification plans from product, architecture, and microarchitecture specifications; identify gaps, ambiguities, corner cases, and risks.
• Build and extend reusable SystemVerilog/UVM environments, including sequences, monitors, scoreboards, checkers, assertions, and coverage models.
• Develop constrained random and targeted tests for normal operation, error handling, recovery, and system-level interactions.
• Drive functional, code, toggle, FSM, and assertion coverage closure using regression and coverage data.
• Debug RTL, testbench, assertion, integration, and regression failures; collaborate with design and firmware teams to isolate issues and verify fixes.
• Automate regression, triage, reporting, and analysis workflows using scripting and modern engineering tools.
• Communicate status, risks, dependencies, and closure evidence clearly; provide technical guidance to less-experienced engineers.

Skills

SystemVerilog

UVM

Constrained random verification

Functional coverage

SystemVerilog Assertions

RTL and testbench debug

Python

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Cadence Xcelium

SimVision

vManager

JasperGold

Synopsys VCS

Verdi

Job description

Renesas is seeking a Senior Digital Design Verification Engineer to join our team developing complex power management SoCs. These products integrate digital control, telemetry, fault management, communication interfaces, configurable peripherals, and advanced power-control functions for AI, datacenter, enterprise computing, networking, and high-performance power delivery applications.

You will independently own verification of significant blocks and features from planning through closure. The role combines hands-on UVM development, coverage-driven verification, complex debug, and close collaboration with architecture, RTL design, firmware, analog, validation, and systems teams.

Responsibilities

Own verification of complex digital blocks or major SoC features from requirements analysis through coverage closure.

Develop feature-based verification plans from product, architecture, and microarchitecture specifications; identify gaps, ambiguities, corner cases, and risks.

Build and extend reusable SystemVerilog/UVM environments, including sequences, monitors, scoreboards, checkers, assertions, and coverage models.

Develop constrained random and targeted tests for normal operation, error handling, recovery, and system-level interactions.

Drive functional, code, toggle, FSM, and assertion coverage closure using regression and coverage data.

Debug RTL, testbench, assertion, integration, and regression failures; collaborate with design and firmware teams to isolate issues and verify fixes.

Automate regression, triage, reporting, and analysis workflows using scripting and modern engineering tools.

Communicate status, risks, dependencies, and closure evidence clearly; provide technical guidance to less-experienced engineers.

Job Description

Renesas is seeking a Senior Digital Design Verification Engineer to join our team developing complex power management SoCs. These products integrate digital control, telemetry, fault management, communication interfaces, configurable peripherals, and advanced power-control functions for AI, datacenter, enterprise computing, networking, and high-performance power delivery applications.

You will independently own verification of significant blocks and features from planning through closure. The role combines hands-on UVM development, coverage-driven verification, complex debug, and close collaboration with architecture, RTL design, firmware, analog, validation, and systems teams.

Responsibilities

• Own verification of complex digital blocks or major SoC features from requirements analysis through coverage closure.
• Develop feature-based verification plans from product, architecture, and microarchitecture specifications; identify gaps, ambiguities, corner cases, and risks.
• Build and extend reusable SystemVerilog/UVM environments, including sequences, monitors, scoreboards, checkers, assertions, and coverage models.
• Develop constrained random and targeted tests for normal operation, error handling, recovery, and system-level interactions.
• Drive functional, code, toggle, FSM, and assertion coverage closure using regression and coverage data.
• Debug RTL, testbench, assertion, integration, and regression failures; collaborate with design and firmware teams to isolate issues and verify fixes.
• Automate regression, triage, reporting, and analysis workflows using scripting and modern engineering tools.
• Communicate status, risks, dependencies, and closure evidence clearly; provide technical guidance to less-experienced engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 4 or more years of relevant digital design verification experience, or equivalent directly applicable experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of a complex block, subsystem, or major feature from verification planning through closure.
• Strong proficiency in SystemVerilog, UVM, constrained random verification, functional coverage, and SystemVerilog Assertions.
• Experience translating specifications into test plans, test scenarios, checkers, scoreboards, assertions, coverage models, and closure criteria.
• Hands-on experience developing and debugging reusable UVM environments and analyzing complex regression failures.
• Strong RTL and testbench debug skills, with the ability to distinguish design, environment, test, firmware, and specification issues.
• Working knowledge of digital design fundamentals, including state machines, clocks and resets, interrupts, register interfaces, memories, and clock-domain crossings.
• Proficiency in Linux and at least one scripting language such as Python, Bash, Perl, or Tcl.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across architecture, design, firmware, analog, validation, and systems teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience verifying complex SoCs, power management ICs, voltage regulators, digital controllers, or mixed-signal products.
• Experience verifying RTL interfaces to embedded processors, memory-mapped peripherals, and firmware-controlled hardware features.
• Familiarity with PMBus, AVSBus, SVID or SVI3, I2C, SPI, or similar control and communication protocols.
• Understanding of telemetry, fault and alert handling, power sequencing, multiphase regulation, or digital control loops.
• Experience with Cadence Xcelium, SimVision, vManager, JasperGold, Synopsys VCS, Verdi, or comparable tools.
• Experience with formal verification, gate-level simulation, silicon bring-up, or pre-silicon-to-silicon correlation.
• Experience improving regression infrastructure, coverage analytics, failure triage, or verification automation.

What You Bring

• Strong technical ownership and a disciplined approach to verification completeness.
• Ability to reason beyond directed requirements and identify meaningful corner cases and feature interactions.
• Clear communication of technical risk, progress, and signoff evidence.
• A collaborative mindset and interest in improving verification methodology and productivity.

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose, To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21,000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries, we offer the opportunity to work on world‑leading technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT, shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future.

At Renesas, TAGIE is our culture, grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. It shapes how we work, grow and deliver on our purpose together. This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Are you ready to join our team and shape the future with us?

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.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.