Senior Firmware Verification Engineer (Pre-Silicon)

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

Job summary

Renesas Electronics America is seeking a Senior Firmware Verification Engineer to own pre-silicon verification of embedded firmware for high-performance PMICs used in data center, AI accelerators, networking, and computing platforms.

You will build and maintain SystemVerilog-based simulation environments, verify firmware across reset to firmware‑hardware interfaces, and drive coverage and regression quality with automation in CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in firmware verification, embedded firmware testing, firmware development, or pre-silicon verification.
• Strong understanding of the embedded firmware development process and how requirements, architecture, implementation, integration, test, debug, and release activities connect.
• Deep understanding of C and assembly-based firmware for ARM Cortex-M processors, including exception and interrupt handling, memory maps, startup code, registers, peripherals, and low-level debugging.
• Proven firmware testing experience, including test planning, test-case design, negative and boundary testing, regression analysis, defect isolation, and coverage closure.
• Strong ability to debug firmware-hardware interactions using simulation logs, waveforms, memory and register traces, and source-level analysis.
• Proficiency in Python, Perl, or similar languages for verification automation and regression infrastructure.
• Familiarity with embedded interfaces such as I2C, PMBus, SPI, UART, or similar protocols.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and enhance SystemVerilog-based simulation environments that execute ARM Cortex-M firmware with the associated RTL and hardware models.
• Verify firmware behavior across reset, boot, initialization, configuration, sequencing, telemetry, protection, fault handling, recovery, and firmware-hardware interface scenarios.
• Analyze C and assembly firmware at source, instruction, register, memory, interrupt, and peripheral levels to diagnose functional and timing-related failures.
• Develop directed, constrained-random, negative, stress, boundary, and error-injection tests to validate expected behavior and robustness.
• Run regressions; triage failures; perform waveform, log, memory, and register analysis; and isolate issues to firmware, RTL, models, testbench, or tools.
• Define and track requirements coverage, functional coverage, code coverage, and regression quality; identify gaps and drive closure.
• Create automation using Python, Perl, or similar scripting languages for build and test execution, result checking, log parsing, failure classification, reporting, and continuous integration.
• Collaborate closely with firmware developers, RTL designers, architects, and validation engineers to review requirements, improve observability and controllability, reproduce defects, and verify fixes.
• Document verification plans, test procedures, coverage results, debug findings, known issues, and release-readiness assessments.

Skills

ARM Cortex-M

Firmware verification

Python/Perl scripting

Debugging firmware-hardware interfaces

Test planning & regression

Embedded systems understanding

Education

BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

MS in related field (preferred)

Tools

SystemVerilog

SimVision

Verdi

QEMU

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Renesas Electronics America is seeking a Senior Firmware Verification Engineer to own pre-silicon verification of embedded firmware for high-performance PMICs used in data center, AI accelerators, networking, and computing platforms.

You will build and maintain SystemVerilog-based simulation environments, verify firmware across reset to firmware‑hardware interfaces, and drive coverage and regression quality with automation in CI/CD pipelines.