Senior Design Verification Engineer

Altera Corporation

$142K — $206K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with 9+ years of industry experience.
  • 9+ years developing verification collateral in Verilog, System Verilog, and UVM.
  • 7+ years of experience with verification of Ethernet/PCIe/CXL protocols.
  • Fluency in UVM for at least 7 years is essential.
  • 7+ years of experience in complex coverage-driven random constraint UVM environments.
  • Proven experience in deriving test plans from high-level specifications for 7+ years.
  • Strong debugging skills to isolate RTL design issues from testbench failures.

Responsibilities

  • Create comprehensive verification and validation plans based on IP/FPGA architectures.
  • Develop subsystem-level testbenches and create tests to meet coverage goals.
  • Review validation results against coverage metrics and refine approaches as needed.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support IP functional validation.
  • Establish validation coverage strategies to enhance IP quality and usability.
  • Develop necessary verification tools and automation flows.
  • Apply advanced techniques for optimal verification productivity and quality.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance options.
  • Flexible work arrangements with remote work possibilities.
  • Generous paid time off including holidays and sick leave.
  • Retirement savings plan with company matching.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
Full Job Description
Job Details:

Job Description:

Altera is responsible for High-Speed Protocol IP development, which includes participating in high-level product specifications, logic/RTL design and implementation, RTL verification, IP FPGA validation and debugging.

As Lead DV Engineer focusing on IP Verification & Validation, you will be responsible for carrying out design validation for Altera next generation IP's across the Altera FPGA IP product portfolios. The charter of IP verification & validation team is to verify and validate the IP for robust functionality from functional simulation. The verification and validation areas encompass IP's for high-speed transceiver protocols (Preferred - Ethernet/PCIe/CXL).
  • Create comprehensive verification and validation plan based on IP/FPGA architecture specifications and carry out all the IP validation tasks. The plan encompasses functional, system level and hardware verification and validation perspectives.
  • Developing IP/subsystem/system level testbench, create tests, and necessary coverage goals based on specification to verify the implementation. Writing directed and random test cases, debugging failures, filing and closing bugs.
  • Review verification and validation results against the coverage goals. Writing, analyzing and achieving coverage metrics.
  • Work with cross-functional teams and prepare/support IP functional validation tests for IP bring-up on actual FPGA development kits.
  • Creating and establishing IP subsystem/solution validation coverage strategy and standardized framework, drive system test design implementation and overall IP system validation on HW, maximizing FPGA hardware capability to bring substantial improvement to IP quality & usability for Altera FPGA IP product portfolios.
  • Developing verification and validation tools and flows, as needed.
  • Apply advanced techniques to achieve verification and validation with the highest quality, productivity, and time-to-market.


Salary Range

The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.

$142.6k - $206.5k USD

We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:
  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a closely related field of study and 9+ years of industry experience.
  • 9+ years of experience developing verification collateral in Verilog, System Verilog and UVM.
  • 7+ years with Ethernet/PCIe/CXL protocol verification is required.
  • 7+ years in UVM Fluency is a must.
  • 7+ years of complex coverage driven random constraint UVM environments.
  • 7+ years of experience with High level Specification into test plan and developing tests cases.
  • 7+ years of experience of debugging skills to narrow down and isolate issue between RTL design and testbench or test case is required.
  • Good communication skills.


Job Type:
Regular

Shift:
Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:
San Jose, California, United States

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