Responsibilities: - Develop and implement mixed-signal verification and coverage plans for complex IC designs based on design architecture and specifications
- Design and develop verification testbenches using industry-standard verification languages and methodologies
- Write and execute test cases to verify mixed-signal circuits for functionality, performance, and reliability
- Review and analyze verification results, and provide feedback to design teams
- Collaborate with design and layout teams to identify and resolve design issues
- Develop new verification methodologies, tools, and techniques, ensuring scalability and portability
- Sign-off mixed signal designs in preparation for tapeout
- Write behavioral models from custom analog and mixed-signal circuits in SystemVerilog HDL
- Collaborate with circuit design teams to understand fine details of custom circuits
- Collaborate with Design Verification team to craft hooks into the behavioral models for effective verification
- Run various simulations and equivalence checks to ensure that the model matches closely with the custom circuits
- Write scripts and simple tools for automating repetitive tasks
- Optimize and refine models to ensure accuracy while maintaining efficient simulation performance
- Review and analyze verification results, and provide feedback to design team
- Document modeling techniques and results for internal and external dissemination
- Keep updated with industry trends in modeling techniques
Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 5+ years of relevant industry experience or equivalent
- Strong understanding of analog and mixed-signal circuit design and verification
principles - Ability to write test plans, present results, and communicate clearly with multi-functional teams
- Have a familiarity with verification methodologies and tools: simulators, waveform
viewers, execution automation, simulation time optimization, and coverage collection - Familiarity with analog behavioral models is a plus
- Deep knowledge of Verilog/SystemVerilog with ability to write synthesize-able and behavioral code
- Deep knowledge of digital logic gates, clocking and state elements
- Deep knowledge of SPICE simulation, HDL simulation and logic equivalence tools
- Working understanding of analog circuit architecture such as ADC, DAC, LDO, Charge pump, etc.
- Have good programming skills and can write efficient programs or scripts in Perl, Python, and/or C
- Excellent debugging, problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
Salary Range: $110,000 - $300,000 / year
