Senior SOC Verification Engineer

NXP is seeking highly qualified candidates to join the SOC Verification team.

In this role, you will be responsible for functional verification of NXP SoCs and sub-systems using state-of-the-art technology and methodologies, should be able to work independently and drive to closure of assigned tasks. You will be engaged with the design, architecture, IP providers, FW/SW, DFT and backend teams to collaborate and execute to ensure first-time-right silicon.

Expectations include:

• Understand the product requirements and develop verification plans to meet the specification.
• Development of pre-silicon verification environment.
• Rigorously executing verification plans to ensure right-first-time success of our products.
• Development of subsystem/SoC verification and coverage plans.
• Demonstrate excellent self-motivation, communication, strong problem-solving and teamwork skills.
• Flexible enough to work in a dynamic environment and multitask seamlessly.
• Ability to work well as part of a team both locally, and with remote or multi-site teams.

Key Skills:

• 4+ years of experience on SoC/chip level/cluster/sub-system verification.
• Experience in microcontroller and microprocessor architecture, ARM cores A/M/R series, interconnect (NIC, FlexNoC), cache coherency.
• Experience in protocols like AHB/AMBA, AXI, ACE, OCP, memory (Flash, SRAM, ROM) and memory controllers.
• Experience in serial protocols like UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, multimedia/networking protocols like MIPI CSI2.
• Good knowledge of ARM debug subsystem and SWD, JTAG protocols.
• Experience with SystemVerilog/UVM for IP/subsystem and SoC development environment.
• Verification using formal methods will be an added advantage.
• Assembly and C programming skills are mandatory.
• Scripting and automation (BASH, Python) to continuously improve operational efficiency.

Job Qualifications:

• BSEE / MSEE with 4+ years' experience in semiconductor industry.

Skills

ARM, Cache, Microcontrollers, Microprocessors, SystemVerilog, UVM, Verification