AMS Verification Engineer - Texas

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible to develop detailed coverage driven Verification plan working closely with System and design team.
• Behavioral Modelling of analog blocks using SV RNM, verilogAMS (wreal, electrical).
• Identify and develop system level tests in AMS to ensure bug free silicon.
• Independently develop SV/UVM based testbenches, tests, checkers, assertions and enhancing with randomization and coverage.
• Innovate & drive new and improved design verification methodologies as needed, work with the EDA team to upgrade tools and flows.
• Interacting with Test/Validation in various post silicon activities and customer debug/analysis.
• Team player: Collaborate and drive smart initiatives within the team. Mentor and lead the junior folks in team
• Closely working with DMS/DV team to understand the SOC – RTL verification and capable to support in case of project requirement.
• Good interaction with Digital Design team, Firmware developers, Analog Designers, and rest of the team.

 

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong fundamentals in mixed-signal designs, including a thorough understanding of analog building blocks, digital design processes, and top-level integration.
• Experienced in developing mixed signal testbench in SV/UVM from scratch with the capability to debug and optimize mixed-signal simulation performance, understanding the necessary trade-offs.
• Strong simulation debug capability, able to analyze simulation waveforms and pinpoint issues in schematics simulation or models

• Knowledge on analog controllers to develop system testbench and debug issues.

• Handling & owning design deliverables and schedule

• Bachelors / Masters in Electrical / Electronics Engineering

Other

Good team player, attitude and thirst for continuous learning

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to function independently, be self-driven

Preferred Skills/ Experience

• 3 years of experience in mixed-signal design verification

• Hands on experience/expertise in working with SOC and developing SOC-AMS testbench.

• Expertise in developing the simulation/DV plan as per the system definition.

• Experience with Cadence Mixed-Signal Design Environment tools, including Virtuoso, ADE Assembler, Xcelium, VIVA & Simvision

• Expertise in Cadence Spectre simulation test bench development, Regression Flow & debug

• Expertise in mixed-signal waveform review, debugging, and coverage analysis.

• Excellent with HDL – system Verilog, UVM, verilogAMS

• Experience in writing checkers, assertions and monitors for top-level simulations.

• Expertise in automation using Python / Perl / Tcl / shell scripting.

• Experience as AMS Lead for a project is an addon.