Staff/Sr Staff PHY Verification Engineer

Job Description:

Join Innophase IoT group as a hands-on PHY Verification Engineer and be responsible for Low-power WiFi, BT/BLE verification. You will be involved in the design development cycle, which includes participating in high-level product specifications, UVM Testbench design, test planning, working closely with Systems, SW, and design engineers.

Your specific responsibilities may include but are not limited to the following:

• Define, Develop, and refine hierarchical UVM testbench for verification of wireless PHY and MAC layers.
• Work closely with design and system engineers to develop constraint random testbench with reference C model.
• Identify bottlenecks in design and verification coverage and provide feedback on potential optimizations.
• Work closely with Verification, and Validation teams on test-plans, coverage-analysis
• Maintain releases, run, and track regressions, and identify functional and code coverage gaps.
• Develop, and refine design, verification and analysis tools and flows, as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• BSEE or MSEE, with experience in UVM testbench development, constraint random testing, coverage analysis.
• 7+ years of experience in RTL, and gate-level verification
• Basic understanding of Digital Signal Processing theory
• Experience in verifying WiFi Physical Layer, and/or another Physical layer like Cellular (WiMax, LTE, NR), Bluetooth, Zigbee, UWB, and/or other Physical layer (Ethernet) technologies.
• Ability to work independently, and proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Experience with Incisive/Xcelium/VCS, Verdi or equivalent tools
• Enjoy debugging, and problem solving in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in verifying Low Power designs, involving multiple power, and voltage domains.
• Establish System Verilog Assertions for functional verification.
• Embedded SW & HW design is a strong plus.
• Experience with Python, Perl, Tcl, C/C++ and shell scripts.
• Experience with lab debug, multi-team, multi-site working environment is a strong plus.
• Experience with ASIC and FPGA synthesis flows utilizing industry leading flows.
• Experience using PowerArtist/Joules and providing actionable feedback into design