Digital Electronics Principal Verification Engineer
Cadence · Edinburgh 01
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Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.
Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.
At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Job Title: Digital Electronics Principal Verification Engineer
Location: Edinburgh
Reports to: Design Engineering Group Director
Job Overview:
The Cadence Silicon Solutions Group (SSG) develop leading edge Intellectual Property (IP) for a variety of High-Tech Markets. The Cadence IP solutions allow our Customers to tackle IP-to-SoC development in a system context, enabling them to focus on product differentiation and to reduce time to volume.
The Cadence SSG Vision is to deliver industry leading IP and Chiplet solutions to enable our customers to be successful across these fast-moving application spaces.
The Digital Principal Verification Engineer will be based in Edinburgh, Scotland as part of an experienced Chiplet Team with long established research and development sites in Europe and India.
Job Responsibilities:
- Development of Verification and Emulation Environments for complex Chiplet Designs
- Development of UVM-SV Scoreboards for self-checking regressions
- Development of Functional Coverage as part of Metric Driven Verification Environments
- Development of SystemVerilog Assertions for use in Formal and Simulation Environments
- Development of Emulation Environments based on Cadences Palladium Emulator Product
- Integration of Cadence Verification IP (VIP) for Simulation Environments
- Integration of Accelerated VIP (AVIP) for Emulation Environments
- Definition and Management of Verification Plans (vPlans) using Cadence vManager tools
- Creation and Management of Automated Regression Environments, e.g. Jenkins, GIT
- Participation in Technical Review Meetings and Checklist Reviews as part of ISO-9001
- Close Collaboration with Architects and Design Engineers to debug complex test scenarios
Job Qualifications:
- Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Microelectronics, or a related discipline
- 10+ years’ experience in microelectronics/EDA industry
- Experience of Verilog RTL Design essential
- Experience of Metric Driven Verification (MDV) essential
- Experience of Formal Verification Methodologies essential
- Excellent oral and written English essential
- Self-motivated with excellent planning, interpersonal, and communication skills
Additional Skills/Preferences:
- Experience of Front-end design tools covering LINT, Synthesis, CDC Analysis preferred
- Experience of Quality processes, such as ISO-9001 & ISO-26262 preferred
Additional Information:
Cadence is committed to equal employment opportunity and employment equity throughout all levels of the organization. We strive to attract a qualified and diverse candidate pool and encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace.