Semtech
Sr. Design Verification Engineer - Digital
USA - San Diego, CA · Senior
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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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Compensation
- A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $130,000 - $200,000.
Benefits
- 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%)
Company info
- 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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