Position Title: Senior Verification Engineer
Protingent has an exciting direct hire opportunity for an Verification Engineer with our client in Hutto, TX.
Job Responsibilities
- Own verification planning and execution for complex blocks and subsystems, from test plan through sign-off.
- Translate design specifications into verification strategies, measurable coverage goals, and early identification of high-risk scenarios.
- Select verification methods for each problem, including constrained-random simulation, formal analysis, and directed testing.
- Develop verification environments, reference models, scoreboards, protocol monitors, coverage components, and assertions.
- Drive functional coverage closure, regression health, and sign-off readiness across simulation and formal results.
- Build verification infrastructure, regression and CI systems, and reuse strategy across IP, subsystem, and SoC levels.
- Apply and build AI-assisted verification capabilities for stimulus generation, regression triage, and coverage analytics.
- Review testbench architecture and debug methodology, and mentor junior engineers in verification methodology.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or 7+ years equivalent experience.
- Minimum five years of professional experience in ASIC or SoC functional verification.
- Hands-on expertise in SystemVerilog, UVM or formal testbench development and maintenance.
- Experience with metric-driven verification for planning, assertions, and functional coverage closure.
- Experience verifying complex digital control and datapath logic, including RTL and system-level debug.
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in space-based communications, wireless communications, or modem, baseband, or DSP hardware.
- Experience verifying LDPC, FEC, framing, or beamforming logic using bit-accurate reference models and fixed-point analysis.
- Formal verification experience on production silicon, including connectivity, register maps, arbitration, CDC, or security properties.
- Experience with interconnect or NoC verification covering performance, bandwidth, QoS, and deadlock analysis.
- Experience verifying fault tolerance and reliability features such as ECC, redundancy schemes, or fault injection.
- Experience developing C-based or portable stimulus for SoC, CPU boot, and firmware-driven test scenarios.
- Experience applying AI, ML, or LLM tooling to stimulus generation, regression triage, or coverage analysis.
Job Details
Job Type: Contract
Location: Austin, TX, San Diego, CA or Fully remote allowed for strong candidates
Pay Rate Range: $115-$135/hr ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.
Benefits Package
Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO) and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent
Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.