Senior ASIC Design Verification Engineer
K2 Space Corporation · Seattle, WA · 2 wk ago
HybridEngineering$170k–$250k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute verification plans for block-level, subsystem-level, and full-chip environments.
- Build SystemVerilog/UVM test benches, including agents, monitors, scoreboards, checkers, and coverage models.
- Write SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) and integrate formal verification where appropriate.
- Drive constrained-random and directed testing strategies to validate functionality, corner cases, and stress scenarios.
- Run simulations, triage failures, drive root-cause analysis, and collaborate with RTL designers to resolve issues.
- Implement and maintain functional coverage, code coverage, assertion coverage, and ensure coverage closure for sign-off.
- Manage regression testing, simulation farms, and CI pipelines to ensure high test throughput and fast debug iterations.
- Participate in design reviews, microarchitecture discussions, and influence design-for-verification (DFV) best practices.
- Work closely with architecture, RTL design, DFT, firmware, physical design, and silicon validation engineers to ensure end-to-end coverage and test.
- Support silicon bring-up and post-silicon validation through test reuse, diagnostics, and debug analysis.
- Participate in ASIC team interviews.
- Contribute to advancement of DV methodologies and improvements.
- Engage external IP providers and verification partners when needed.
Qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC verification.
- Solid understanding of SystemVerilog, digital logic, RTL design, and hardware verification flows.
- Proficiency with a simulation (VCS, Xcelium, Questa), waveform debug (Verdi, SimVision), coverage tool, and scripting languages (ex: Python, Perl, TCL).
- Experience with testplanning, UVM-based testbench development, constrained-random testing, functional coverage, and SystemVerilog assertions.
- Experience with regression management, coverage analysis, revision control (Git), and CI/CD automation.
- Understanding of several industry-standard interfaces (ex: APB/AHB/AXI).
- Familiarity with embedded processor-based designs and firmware/bare metal coding (ex: C, C++).
Nice to Have
- Experience with developing and integrating reference models.
- Understanding of low power verification.
- Familiarity with gate-level simulation and analog behavioral models.
- Involvement in post-silicon validation planning and execution.
- Experience working in cross-functional, geographically distributed teams.
- Experience in space, telecom, or RF/digital mixed systems is a plus.