Senior Design Verification Engineer

Altera is responsible for High-Speed Protocol IP development, which includes participating in high-level product specifications, logic/RTL design and implementation, RTL verification, IP FPGA validation and debugging.
As Lead DV Engineer focusing on IP Verification & Validation, you will be responsible for carrying out design validation for Altera next generation IP's across the Altera FPGA IP product portfolios. The charter of IP verification & validation team is to verify and validate the IP for robust functionality from functional simulation. The verification and validation areas encompass IP's for high-speed transceiver protocols (Preferred – Ethernet/PCIe/CXL).

• Create comprehensive verification and validation plan based on IP/FPGA architecture specifications and carry out all the IP validation tasks. The plan encompasses functional, system level and hardware verification and validation perspectives.

• Developing IP/subsystem/system level testbench, create tests, and necessary coverage goals based on specification to verify the implementation. Writing directed and random test cases, debugging failures, filing and closing bugs.

•  Review verification and validation results against the coverage goals. Writing, analyzing and achieving coverage metrics.

• Work with cross-functional teams and prepare/support IP functional validation tests for IP bring-up on actual FPGA development kits.

• Creating and establishing IP subsystem/solution validation coverage strategy and standardized framework, drive system test design implementation and overall IP system validation on HW, maximizing FPGA hardware capability to bring substantial improvement to IP quality & usability for Altera FPGA IP product portfolios.

• Developing verification and validation tools and flows, as needed.

• Apply advanced techniques to achieve verification and validation with the highest quality, productivity, and time-to-market.

Salary Range

The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.

$142.6k - $206.5k USD

We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a closely related field of study and 9+ years of industry experience.

• 9+ years of experience developing verification collateral in Verilog, System Verilog and UVM.

• 7+ years with Ethernet/PCIe/CXL protocol verification is required.

• 7+ years in UVM Fluency is a must.

• 7+ years of complex coverage driven random constraint UVM environments.

• 7+ years of experience with High level Specification into test plan and developing tests cases.

• 7+ years of experience of debugging skills to narrow down and isolate issue between RTL design and testbench or test case is required.

• Good communication skills.