Lead Design Engineer

Core Responsibilities
1. Strategy and Architecture
Verification Planning: Define the overall verification strategy, including the choice of methodology (typically UVM/SystemVerilog), tools, and infrastructure.
Testbench Architecture: Design scalable, reusable, and robust verification environments. This includes developing Bus Functional Models (BFMs), monitors, scoreboards, and checkers.
Feature Extraction: Analyze architectural specifications to identify critical features and corner cases that require rigorous testing.
2. Execution and Technical Leadership
Development: Write complex test cases and sequences to achieve high functional coverage.
Debug: Lead the root-cause analysis of complex design bugs, collaborating closely with design engineers to implement fixes.
Constraint Random Testing: Implement constrained-random stimulus generation to explore the design space beyond directed tests.
Formal Verification: Utilize formal tools to prove specific properties or find deep-seated bugs that simulation might miss.
3. Metric Management
Coverage Analysis: Monitor and analyze functional and code coverage metrics.
Gate-Level Simulation (GLS): Oversee simulations on the synthesized netlist to verify timing and reset behavior.
Sign-off: Define the "definition of done" and provide final technical approval for the verification phase.
Soft Skills and Leadership
Mentorship: Guiding junior engineers on coding standards and debugging techniques.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Acting as the primary technical point of contact between the design, architecture, and emulation teams.
Project Management: Managing timelines, identifying risks in the verification schedule, and prioritizing tasks to meet project deadlines.
Required Qualifications
B.E./B.Tech or M.Tech/M.S. in Electronics, VLSI, or related field
4–6 years of hands-on DV experience in semiconductor/ASIC/SoC companies