Semtech

Sr. Design Verification Engineer - Digital

USA - San Diego, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$130k-$200kDetected 30 days ago

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About the role

The Sr. Design Verification Engineer is responsible for developing and implementing verification plans for digital IP blocks, subsystems, and full integrated circuits within mixed-signal sensing products. The Sr. Design Verification Engineer will closely collaborate with system, digital & physical design, embedded firmware, analog, and cross functional teams.
The role also includes technical leadership, mentoring and supervision of junior verification engineers, pre-silicon validation, and support to silicon validation, production test and application engineers.
Design Verification Engineer is responsible for developing and implementing verification plans for digital IP blocks, subsystems, and full integrated circuits within mixed-signal sensing products.

Drive adoption of advanced verification methodologies, best practices and tool evaluation. (5%)
Support silicon lab evaluation, performance characterization and debug. (5%)
Technical support to test, product and application engineers. (5%)
8+ years of industry experience in integrated circuit design verification (DV)
Define, develop and optimize comprehensive verification plans and test strategies for digital IP blocks, subsystems, and full integrated circuits in mixed-signal products.
Work closely with design teams to understand micro-architecture and functional specifications.
Generate technical documentation and drive verification reviews. (30%)
Design and implement UVM testbench environments using SystemVerilog for digital IP blocks, subsystems, and full-chip verification.
Perform block and chip-level RTL and gate-level verification of digital logic interfacing with analog peripherals via behavioral models provided by the analog team.

Experience with standard hardware protocols (I2C, I3C, SPI, MIPI)
Knowledge of system-level integration: digital hardware, embedded firmware, signal processing concepts
Experience with capacitive sensing, touch, or proximity ICs
Incumbents may be required to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically included in this description.

A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $130,000 - $200,000.

Create and maintain detailed test plans, coverage models, and verification environments.
Drive coverage closure including functional, code, and assertion-based coverage.
Develop constrained-random verification environments, directed test cases, and reusable verification components (drivers, monitors, scoreboards, coverage models).
Build and maintain regression infrastructure, continuous integration flows, and coverage tracking. (30%)

Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for high-end consumer, enterprise computing, communications, and industrial equipment.
As our future market opportunities have increased in recent years, we have continued to invest in disruptive analog platforms and have created innovative new solutions for a wide range of leading edge products.
The Sensing Product Group located in our San Diego office has unique expertise in system level platform solutions for Sensing Products including Touch & Proximity.
These are leading edge low power touch-interface solutions integrated with highly accurate ADCs for enhanced sensing performance.
These ultra-small, feature-rich sensing systems are optimized for a wide range of battery-powered, portable applications such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, wearables, handheld devices and other consumer or ITA control applications.

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