Principal Digital Design Verification Engineer

The Sony Europe Technology Development Centre (EUTDC) is an R&D Integrated Circuit Design Centre and has one clear and bold mission: developing next-generation imaging and sensing solid-state devices from initial idea to technology proof-of-concept demonstrators, contributing to next-generation Sony Semiconductor Solutions successful products for mobile market.

We are seeking a skilled and expert Senior/Principal Digital Design Verification Engineer to join our Digital Design team and play a pivotal role in the Digital Design Verification of top-level and IPs, coordinating the efforts of other verification contributors, and contributing to shaping the verification methodology. This role involves tight communication with the design team and coordination of the design verification activities, potentially with external engineers and contractors, and collaboration with other European and Japanese design centres for alignment on methodology improvements.

You will:

• Lead Digital Design Verification projects, including planning and organizing work for contributors, and reporting the progress to managers.
• Develop and consolidate new design verification flows, with the main target of developing state-of-the-art methodology and step up the efficiency across sites.
• Analyze design specifications to create comprehensive verification plans for complex blocks.
• Maintain a digital regression environment and analyze code and functional coverage.
• Debug tests autonomously and communicate proficiently with designers as needed.
• Write, integrate, and debug analogue models, supporting AMS verification teams.
• Contribute to verification methodologies for imaging systems and system model integration (e.g., SystemC).
• Apply Continuous Integration concepts and workflows (e.g., Jenkins).

You have:

• A background in technical, electronics, semiconductor, or physics, with a PhD/MSc in Engineering or Physics or equivalent experience.
• Solid experience in the design and verification domain, preferably with CMOS Image Sensors.
• Excellent expertise in UVM/digital verification methodology.
• Proficient in common scripting languages (Python, Perl, Tcl/shell, Makefile, etc.).
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Experience working with multi-ethnic, cross-functional, and remote teams.
• Fluent English.

Your New Office:

Trento - European Technology Development Centre (EUTDC)

Surrounded by Dolomite Alps, the EUTDC is located in Trento (one of the three top cities for life quality in Italy) and sits in a scientific ecosystem where universities, research institutes, companies, and organizations collaborate for the development and design of next generation technologies. Our office offers some extraordinary views of a beautiful landscape, a break room with free hot drinks, and a canteen. Our team is a truly international community, each collaborating with passion and creativity.

Life at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.

We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.

You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by mail to: Sony Europe B.V, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.

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