ASIC SoC Verification Engineer

We are looking for an experienced ASIC SoC Verification Engineer with strong expertise in SystemVerilog, UVM, AMBA protocols, C programming, processor architecture, and boot flow. The candidate will be responsible for IP and SoC-level verification, developing verification environments, debugging complex issues, and ensuring functional correctness of ASIC designs.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain SystemVerilog/UVM-based verification environments.
• Perform IP-level and SoC-level functional verification.
• Develop test plans, test cases, sequences, assertions, and coverage models.
• Verify AMBA protocols, including AXI, AXI4-Lite, and APB.
• Develop and integrate UVM components such as drivers, monitors, sequencers, scoreboards, and agents.
• Verify processor-based SoC designs, including processor interfaces and subsystem integration.
• Develop and execute C-based tests for processor and SoC verification.
• Verify and debug SoC boot flow, including reset, initialization, memory setup, firmware execution, and peripheral initialization.
• Understand and verify processor architecture, registers, interrupts, memory map, and bus interfaces.
• Debug failures across RTL, firmware, processor, and SoC levels.
• Perform simulation, regression, coverage analysis, and coverage closure.
• Develop and debug SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA).
• Collaborate with RTL, architecture, firmware, and design teams to resolve issues.

Required Skills

Verification

• Strong hands-on experience in ASIC/SoC Verification.
• Excellent knowledge of SystemVerilog and UVM.
• Strong understanding of constrained-random verification and functional coverage.
• Experience with IP and SoC-level verification.
• Good debugging and root-cause analysis skills.

AMBA Protocols

• Strong knowledge of AMBA protocols.
• Hands-on experience with:
• AXI / AXI4 / AXI4-Lite
• Understanding of protocol transactions, handshaking, ordering, bursts, and error conditions.

C & Processor

• Good programming knowledge in C.
• Experience developing or debugging C-based processor/SoC test cases.
• Strong understanding of processor architecture and processor-based SoCs.
• Knowledge of registers, memory map, interrupts, exceptions, caches, and memory interfaces.
• Understanding of CPU-to-peripheral and CPU-to-memory communication.

Boot Flow

• Strong understanding of SoC boot flow.
• Knowledge of reset sequence, boot ROM, initialization, firmware execution, memory initialization, and peripheral initialization.
• Ability to debug issues occurring during early boot and firmware execution.
• Exposure to bare-metal or embedded software-based verification is preferred.

Good to Have

• Experience with processor verification and SoC integration.
• Knowledge of RISC-V / ARM processor architecture.
• Experience with C/C++ and embedded firmware.
• Knowledge of PCIe, DDR, USB, or other SoC
• Experience with SVA, formal verification, and coverage closure.
• Knowledge of Python/Perl/Shell scripting.
• Experience with Cadence, Synopsys, or Siemens EDA tools.

Education

B.E./B.Tech/M.Tech in Electronics & Communication, Electrical & Electronics, Electronics, or a related field.