Design Verification Engineer – Memory Controller Verification

Introduction
As a Hardware Developer at IBM you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Functional verification engineer you will be working on the latest generation of IBM high end state-of-the-art micro-processors used in IBM servers.
Lead the development of the verification plan environment testbenches and writing testcases.
Develop skills in IBM Functional verification tools and methodologies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 9 + years of experience in Functional Verification of processors.
• 3+ years of experience in the following fields
  • Computer architecture knowledge
  • Multi-processor cache coherency Memory hierarchy/subsystem verification.
  • Knowledge of the DRAM specification – DDR4/5 LPDDR4/5
  • Knowledge of performance parameters in memory controller designs and ways to stress verify them
• Minimum one full life cycle leadership experience of a processor/SoC verification flow with focus on Memory Controller Verification
• Developed test-plans and test strategies for IP/unit/block level verification of Memory Controller functional blocks in processor/SoC
• Clock domain crossing and reset domain crossing verification
• Good object-oriented programming skills in C++/SV scripting languages like Python/Perl.
• Knowledge of functional verification methodology like UVM/OVM
• Knowledge of HDLs (VHDL/Verilog)
• Development experience on Linux/Unix environments GIT repositories and good understanding of Continuous Integration and DevOps workflow
• Exposure in developing testbench environment write complex test scenario debugging and triaging fails
• Experience in driving verification coverage closure including performance testing stress testing and ability to identify corner case scenarios.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Good understanding of computer system architecture and microarchitecture.
• Knowledge of design patterns in programming