Senior Staff Design Verification Engineer

*Please Note: Candidates for this role must be open to relocation to Duluth, GA. Renesas is looking for a highly experienced **Senior Staff Design Verification Engineer** to provide technical leadership for the verification of leading-edge memory interface products for data center, AI, and cloud computing applications. This role will help drive verification strategy and execution for advanced memory data buffer products, including **DDR6 and future generations**. The ideal candidate is a recognized technical expert with deep semiconductor design verification experience using **SystemVerilog and UVM**. Previous DDR or memory experience is an advantage, but is not required. Key Responsibilities - Provide technical leadership for verification of complex semiconductor designs at the **block and system level**. - Define and drive verification strategies, methodologies, test plans, and coverage approaches for complex designs and features. - Lead the development and optimization of **SystemVerilog/UVM verification environments and testbenches**. - Drive verification execution, functional coverage, debugging, and coverage closure. - Take ownership of significant verification efforts and make independent technical decisions regarding verification methods, techniques, and priorities. - Work closely with design engineers and other technical stakeholders to ensure designs meet functional and performance requirements and are effectively verifiable. - Analyze complex verification and design issues, determine root causes, and drive solutions. - Anticipate technical challenges and identify improvements to verification methodologies, processes, quality, and efficiency. - Drive the development of reusable verification solutions, methodologies, and best practices that can benefit broader engineering efforts. - Participate in and provide technical leadership during architecture, feasibility, design, and technical reviews. - Serve as a **subject matter expert** in design verification and provide technical guidance on complex problems. - Mentor and provide guidance to verification engineers across projects and experience levels. - Coordinate with technical stakeholders across teams and disciplines to achieve verification milestones and objectives. - Communicate verification status, technical risks, recommendations, and readiness to engineering leadership and project stakeholders. **Qualifications** - Bachelor's or Master's degree in **Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field**, or equivalent experience. - 10+ years of related experience in semiconductor design verification - Deep experience in **semiconductor design verification**, including technical leadership of complex verification efforts. - Advanced proficiency with **SystemVerilog** and extensive hands-on experience with **UVM (Universal Verification Methodology)**. - Experience defining verification strategies and developing verification plans from product and design specifications. - Strong experience developing, optimizing, and debugging UVM-based verification environments and testbenches. - Strong experience with functional verification, coverage, checkers, test development, debugging, and coverage closure. - Demonstrated ability to independently resolve complex technical problems and make verification methodology decisions. - Demonstrated ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers Preferred Qualifications - Experience with DDR4, DDR5, memory interfaces, data buffers, or other high-speed memory technologies. - Experience leading verification efforts across multiple blocks, features, or engineering groups. - Experience developing verification methodologies or best practices with applicability beyond an individual project. *Please Note: Candidates for this role must be open to relocation to Duluth, GA. **Additional Information** Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources. Videos To Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-zs4tB6nNc