Principal Digital IP Verification Engineer (f/m/d)

Business Line Description

The MCU/MPU Engineering Digital IP team defines and develops components for a wide range of products, including automotive microprocessors, application processors, microcontrollers, and networking solutions.The Munich Digital IP team focuses on the development of interface components, DSP subsystems, next-generation AI/ML cores, and RISC-V-based IP. This position is intended to strengthen the Munich team with experienced verification engineers working across multiple digital IP and subsystem domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform pre-silicon verification of AI/ML processing blocks, RISC-V processors, or similar digital IPs.
• Define and develop comprehensive IP verification plans based on requirements such as industry standards, product requirements, architecture, and design specifications.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, and software teams, as well as architecture and system engineering teams, to understand IP functionality and system-level use cases.
• Execute verification plans in alignment with product specifications to ensure high-quality, zero-defect IP delivery.
• Architect, develop, debug, and maintain UVM-based verification environments for RTL simulation.
• Develop testcases within appropriate verification frameworks, including stimulus generation and assertion-based verification.
• Run simulations across multiple abstraction levels (RTL, power-aware RTL, gate-level, FPGA, and emulation platforms).
• Execute regressions, analyze results, and drive closure of functional and code coverage.
• Identify issues, debug failures, and contribute to continuous improvement of verification methodologies and flows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in IP or subsystem verification.
• Solid understanding of microprocessor architecture, interconnects, and cache coherency mechanisms.
• Hands-on experience with CPU verification (proprietary cores, RISC-V, or AI/ML accelerators).

• Experience in using AI-based tools to enhance development and verification efficiency.

• Strong experience in testbench development using UVM for IP, subsystems, or SoC-level verification.
• Experience with AMBA protocols (AHB, AXI, ACE, CHI) and memory systems (ROM, RAM, Flash, DDR/LPDDR).
• Advanced knowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, and C/C++.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Perl, TCL, or Shell.
• Strong understanding of metric-driven verification, including functional and code coverage.
• Experience with directed and constrained-random verification methodologies.
• Working knowledge of formal verification techniques and assertion-based verification.
• Experience debugging designs in both pre-silicon (simulation/emulation) and post-silicon environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Basic conversational German is a plus.

Please note: The successful candidate may/will be responsible for security related tasks. The assignment may/will be in scope of security certifications, therefore a conscious and reliable way of working is necessary.

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