Staff Engineer, Design Verification Engineer

Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, and software technologies into solutions that help drive advancements in digitized factories, mobility, and digital healthcare, combat climate change, and reliably connect humans and the world. With revenue of more than $12 billion in FY22 and approximately 25,000 people globally working alongside 125,000 global customers, ADI ensures today’s innovators stay Ahead of What’s Possible.

Analog Devices is seeking Bluetooth and other RF Design Verification Engineer for a Staff level role, who will be responsible for design verification of Bluetooth module at IP & SOC level for a complex digital centric solutions and products in a multifunctional team. You will be working on driving real revenue growth on the next generation of Intelligence at the Edge products across multiple products and business units.

About the Role

Key member of design verification team, which has both mixed-signal and digital design verification engineers. The candidate will be responsible for formulating verification strategies and leading, driving and completing verification of a complex Bluetooth module at IP & SOC level for a large integrated product. As a senior team member, it is expected that he/she will lead and influence verification methodologies within both DBU and ADI. The candidate is also encouraged to participate in cross company technical initiatives as well as patent and publish work where possible.

Requirements

• B.Tech/M.Tech with 8+ years of industry experience in Digital Pre-Silicon verification of RF/Bluetooth Modules.
• Good understanding of RF/Bluetooth Digital & Analog architectures. Exposure to products that integrate a wide variety of RF/Bluetooth related wireless modules. Good Knowledge of scenarios involving Digital-Analog interactions in RF/Bluetooth modules.
• Exposure & understanding of Analog/RF blocks & associated Behavioral Real Number models.
• Demonstrated experience of verification plan, verification environment development using UVM and verification/debug of complex products involving RF/Bluetooth modules.
• Experience in closing the verification of block, subsystem level verification using industry standard metrics like code and functional coverage is a must.
• Power aware verification with UPF, Power analysis and Power optimization.
• Gate level Simulation with timing annotated
• Assertion and formal knowledge are an advantage. Formal verification, define formal verification flow, connectivity and functional verification using formal tools.
• Experience and debug with digital simulators such as Cadence Xcelium/Synopsys VCS.
• Tracking of verification metrics and regression management, Metric Driven Verification (MDV) framework using tools such as Cadence vManager.
• System Verilog, C/C++, System C, TCL/Python/shell-scripting
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, collaborate and influence innovative design development/verification methodologies to wider team spread across the globe.
• Quick to adopt new technologies with good problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.

Responsibilities

• All aspects of Digital Verification right from verification planning to test bench development to constraint random stimulus creation to score boarding to coverage closure.
• Come up with verification strategy for a Bluetooth Module at IP & SOC level after going through IP/Product requirements and design specifications.
• Defining verification plans, tests scenarios and verification methodology for IP and SOC level verification. Working with the digital/analog design team in generating and reviewing verification plans and closure of code and functional coverage.
• Deploy industry standard UVM based verification approach. UVM testbench architecture development and implementation of DV flows, methodology.
• Develop self-checking testcases.
• Collaborate and work closely with team members from various disciplines (system architects, digital design, analog design, AMS DV etc.) for first pass silicon.
• Formal verification of IP’s and Subsystems
• Support test and characterization teams in post-silicon validation.
• Collaborate with CAD team to deploy next generation innovative design verification methodologies to reduce overall TTM.
• Mentor junior engineers.

For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.

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Job Req Type: Experienced

Required Travel: Yes, 10% of the time

Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days