Senior Lead Engineer - SoC Design Verification

We are seeking a highly driven Senior Design Verification Engineerfor RTL functional verification of cutting-edge invehicle networking devices within NXP's nextgeneration automotive product line. In this individualcontributor role, you will architect, enhance, and maintain advancedUVMbased and Cbased verification environments. You will define robust verification strategies, craft comprehensive test plans, and drivemetricdriven verificationto full closure. You will collaborate closely with worldclass teams acrossDesign, Architecture, Validation, and Firmware, ensuring seamless integration and adherence to rigorous automotive design and quality processes. This is an opportunity to shape the verification strategy of highimpact automotive solutions that define reliability, safety, and performance for vehicles worldwide

Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Create robust verification architecture, verification testplan and verification metric closure documentation to comply with NXP verification and validation process.

• Architect and develop testbenches using System Verilog and UVM for functional and power aware RTL verification. Contribute to defining verification strategy (Directed, Constrained random and Formal) for IP, Sub-System and SoC verification.

• Develop UVM components like Agents (active and passive), Scoreboards and Environment etc., Develop Assertions, functional coverage.

• Develop Test plan, UVM based test sequences, layered sequences, virtual sequencers.

• Drive closure of verification metrics to cover verification space. Work with a team to identify and close gaps in Functional, Power aware and Gate level timing Simulation.

• Develop C testcases for HW-FW Simulation and FPGA Prototyping.

• Regression setup, debug of RTL and Gate level Netlist.

• Work closely with Architecture, digital and analog design, DV and validation teams to ensure timely delivery of quality products

Minimum Required Qualifications

• B.S./M.S. Electrical/Computer Engineering (or similar degrees)

• 8+ Years of proven track record of ASIC/SoC verification, taking several chips from specification to tape out.

• Proven Expertise with UVM and/or System Verilog based verification.

• Proven experience of standard ASIC verification including

  • Planning Test

  • Testbench creation.

  • Code and Functional Coverage

  • Directed and Constrained random stimulus generation and test.

  • Low power verification. UPF/CPF Flow.

  • SVA Assertion.

  • C/C++, Perl, Python scripting.

• Experience working with tools like GIT, Jira, Confluence.