Goken America LLC
FPGA Verification Engineer - Air Vehicles
Costa Mesa, CA · Senior
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About the role
- We also foster a culture built on high performance, collaboration, continuous improvement, and ongoing professional development.
- This will require expertise in SystemVerilog, object-oriented programming, and UVM.
- Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement UVM verification environments (drivers, monitors, predictors, scoreboards) for AMD (Xilinx) FPGA/SoC designs
- Develop verification plans with traceability to system and hardware requirements
- Author SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) for protocol compliance and design intent checks
- Collaborate with design engineers on RTL reviews, bug resolution, and micro-architecture refinement
- Support hardware validation and board bring-up on target platforms
- We partner with OEMs and suppliers across the mobility space, as well as clients in non-mobility industries, to deliver innovative solutions and accelerate product development.
- This mindset fuels our mission and empowers our teams to solve complex problems, deliver measurable value, and move our clients and industries forward.
- Our Mission is to build trust that fosters greatness in our people, excellence in our clients, and positive impact in the communities we serve.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 3-5+ years of experience in FPGA/ASIC verification
- Proficient in SystemVerilog, UVM methodology and SVA, with experience contributing to and extending UVM testbenches
- Object-oriented programming principles
- Industry simulators (Questa, VCS, Xcelium, or Vivado)
- Git-based collaborative workflows including code review
- Linux development environments
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Eligible to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance
Compensation
- Goken offers a competitive compensation structure and benefits that support professional growth and personal well-being.
Benefits
- Our Vision is to empower associates to drive innovation and lead meaningful change wherever it's needed, ensuring we stay ahead of the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.
- Goken offers a competitive compensation structure and benefits that support professional growth and personal well-being.
- Build functional coverage models and drive code coverage analysis to closure
- Develop constrained-random and transaction-level test sequences to maximize coverage and uncover corner-case bugs
- Establish and maintain regression suites, tracking coverage metrics and verification progress
- Author verification closure reports and coverage analysis summaries
- This role will own verification of FPGA/SoC designs on AMD (Xilinx) platforms for flight-critical avionics, with a focus on UVM-based methodology and coverage-driven verification.
Company info
- Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio (USA) with Engineering Centers in Pune, India and Yokohama, Japan, Goken is a global Engineering Services and Product Development company founded in 2004.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Secret security clearance
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