Senior System-Level Verification Engineer (SOC/ARM)

Axiado; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiado seeks a Design Verification Technical Team Lead to join its growing team in silicon security. You will perform chip level verification of ARM-based SoCs, debug HW, and bring up ROM and firmware, driving test environments and coverage across simulation and emulation.

You will collaborate with software and hardware teams, develop test plans, and debug complex issues while contributing to post-silicon validation and IP interfaces.

Qualifications

• 7 years of DV or validation experience.
• 5 years of system level verification experience using C.
• Has worked through complete project cycle of an SOC ASIC chip.
• Thorough understanding of CPU and its debug architecture.
• Proficient in programming and modeling typical SOC connected devices, such as JTAG, UART, SPI, I2C.
• Proficient in testplanning, test case development using C, and self checking in such tests.
• Proficient in RTL debugging using waveform viewer.
• Mastery in C programming, and fluent in scripting languages such as Make, Python, Perl and shell script.
• Fluent in documentation and issue tracking using Confluence and Jira tools.
• Preferred experience in Validation on emulation, FPGA and post-silicon.
• Complex IP interface validation of USB, Ethernet, PCIE, DDR.
• Using AI tools in testplanning, generation and debugging

Responsibilities

• Develop SOC system level test environment for simulation and emulation, including log generation, backdoor configuration and device modeling
• Develop testplan and tests, including error condition tests and stress tests
• Run and debug tests in regressions, both in simulation and on emulator
• Work with other teams in root-causing HW issues, and creating system level test cases for them
• Validation ROM
• Work with SW team in debugging device driver issues, and OS boots

Skills

DV/Validation

System-level verification

C programming

RTL debugging

JTAG/UART/SPI/I2C

Tools

JTAG

UART

SPI

I2C

Job description

Axiado seeks a Design Verification Technical Team Lead to join its growing team in silicon security. You will perform chip level verification of ARM-based SoCs, debug HW, and bring up ROM and firmware, driving test environments and coverage across simulation and emulation.

You will collaborate with software and hardware teams, develop test plans, and debug complex issues while contributing to post-silicon validation and IP interfaces.