Senior Design Verification Engineer

Join onsemi’s new and growing RISC-V division and help ensure the functional correctness, quality, safety, and security of configurable and customizable RISC-V CPU IP.

You will participate in the complete verification process, from understanding requirements and defining verification plans and strategies to implementation, debugging, metric-driven verification closure, tape-out, and delivery of reviewable evidence.

You will combine proven SystemVerilog/UVM simulation methodologies with innovative and advanced formal verification techniques. You will also help define practical AI-assisted verification approaches focused on measurable quality and engineering effectiveness, not simply producing unchecked AI-generated content.

• Define and execute verification plans for RISC-V CPU features, configurations, and custom extensions.

• Translate architecture, product, safety, and security requirements into measurable verification objectives and closure criteria.

• Develop reusable SystemVerilog/UVM environments, assertions, checkers, reference models, coverage models, and regression infrastructure.

• Verify ISA behavior, privilege modes, exceptions, interrupts, memory interfaces, debug functionality, configurations, and custom instruction interactions.

• Combine simulation and advanced formal techniques to address complex control logic and high-risk corner cases.

• Apply metric-driven verification to measure progress, identify quality gaps, and support sign-off decisions.

• Debug complex failures and collaborate with architecture, RTL design, functional safety, security, and SoC integration teams.

• Execute requirements traceability and fault-oriented verification with the rigor required to pass external safety and security assessments for multiple certification programs.

• Help define and evaluate AI-assisted verification methods, including their benefits, limitations, quality controls, and safeguards.

Why join us?

• Join a new and growing RISC-V division and help shape its verification practices, infrastructure, and engineering culture.

• Work alongside a highly skilled verification team, including principal and staff engineers with many years of CPU verification experience.

• Learn the complete CPU verification process, from planning and strategy through implementation, closure, tape-out, and assessment-ready evidence.

• Join a team with a proven track record of delivering and taping out multiple CPUs and products with zero critical bugs.

• Verify CPU IP that will be implemented in real products and taken through silicon tape-out, not limited to research or prototypes.

• Work with proven UVM simulation methodologies and innovative formal verification techniques.

• Develop expertise in RISC-V architecture, configurable CPU IP, custom extensions, functional safety, and security.

• Help shape responsible AI-assisted verification practices where quality, effectiveness, and expert oversight are essential.

• Contribute to CPU technologies for automotive, industrial, security, and edge-AI applications.

• Strong experience in CPU, SoC, or complex reusable digital IP verification.

• Advanced knowledge of SystemVerilog, UVM, assertions, functional coverage, and verification debugging.

• Experience with verification planning, metric-driven execution, coverage analysis, and quality-based closure.

• Understanding of processor concepts such as pipelines, privilege levels, exceptions, interrupts, memory access, and debug.

• Experience with formal verification or strong motivation to develop advanced formal verification expertise.

• Ability to translate technical requirements into measurable verification objectives and reviewable evidence.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.

• A quality-oriented engineering mindset and willingness to take ownership of assigned verification areas.

• RISC-V experience is valuable. Strong verification experience with another processor architecture and motivation to develop RISC-V expertise are equally welcome.

• Experience with ISO 26262, fault-oriented verification, security verification, certification activities, or AI-assisted engineering is an advantage.