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Senior Design Verification Engineer
About the Role
As a Senior Design Verification Engineer at Analog Devices, you will lead verification planning and execution for next-generation automotive connectivity SoCs based on E2B technology. Working independently with minimal supervision, you will develop advanced verification environments for complex SoCs incorporating embedded microprocessors, communication subsystems, firmware, security functions, and mixed-signal components.
You will collaborate closely with architecture, digital design, analog design, firmware, functional safety, and validation teams to ensure robust verification coverage and high-quality silicon. You will also contribute to verification methodology improvements, mentor junior engineers, and help resolve complex hardware, firmware, and system-level issues.
This career-level position provides the opportunity to contribute to technologies that enable reliable, high-performance communication within modern vehicles.
Key Responsibilities
Verification Strategy: Develop and implement comprehensive verification strategies and test plans for automotive connectivity SoCs and E2B-related functionality.
SoC Verification: Verify complex SoCs containing embedded processors, memories, interconnects, DMA controllers, interrupts, communication interfaces, security features, and mixed-signal subsystems.
UVM Environment Development: Architect, develop, and maintain scalable SystemVerilog/UVM verification environments, including agents, scoreboards, reference models, sequences, assertions, and functional coverage.
Processor and Firmware Verification: Develop firmware-driven verification scenarios for microprocessor-based SoCs, including processor initialization, interrupts, exceptions, memory accesses, peripheral control, and hardware-software interactions.
C DPI Development: Develop and integrate C/SystemVerilog DPI components, software models, and reference models into simulation environments.
E2B Protocol Verification: Verify E2B protocol functionality, including data transfers, control and configuration mechanisms, timing behavior, error handling, diagnostics, and recovery scenarios.
Coverage and Verification Closure: Define and track functional coverage, code coverage, assertion coverage, test status, and verification metrics through sign-off.
Debug and Issue Resolution: Analyze and resolve complex issues across RTL, UVM environments, embedded software, C models, and system-level use cases.
Functional Safety Verification: Support verification of safety mechanisms, fault injection campaigns, requirements traceability, and verification activities associated with ISO 26262-compliant automotive products.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with architecture, design, firmware, functional safety, validation, and applications teams on verification planning, issue resolution, and product readiness.
Post-Silicon Support: Contribute to FPGA prototyping, silicon bring-up, post-silicon validation, and investigation of system or customer issues.
Technical Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to junior verification engineers and contribute to design and verification reviews.
Methodology and Automation: Improve verification productivity through reusable components, automation, regression infrastructure, and verification best practices.
Must-Have Skills
SystemVerilog and UVM: Expert-level knowledge of SystemVerilog and the Universal Verification Methodology, with experience developing reusable verification environments for complex digital designs.
SoC Verification: Strong experience verifying complex SoCs that include embedded microprocessors, memories, buses, peripherals, interrupts, and communication subsystems.
C DPI Development: Hands-on experience developing C/SystemVerilog DPI interfaces and integrating C models or reference models into verification environments.
Verification Planning: Proven ability to convert architecture, design, and product requirements into detailed verification plans, test scenarios, functional coverage, and sign-off criteria.
Coverage-Driven Verification: Strong experience with constrained-random verification, functional coverage, code coverage, and assertion-based verification.
Hardware-Software Integration: Experience developing firmware-driven tests and debugging interactions between embedded software and RTL.
Debugging Expertise: Strong analytical and debugging skills across SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches, RTL, embedded C code, and system-level environments.
Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in Python, TCL, Perl, shell scripting, or similar languages for regression management, result analysis, and workflow automation.
Communication and Collaboration: Ability to work effectively across architecture, design, firmware, functional safety, validation, and applications teams.
Technical Leadership: Ability to independently lead verification activities, conduct technical reviews, mentor less-experienced engineers, and influence verification methodology adoption.
Preferred Skills
Experience verifying SoCs incorporating RISC-V processors. Experience with ARM or other embedded processor architectures is also valuable.
Understanding of processor concepts such as privilege modes, exceptions, interrupts, memory protection, caches, debug infrastructure, and firmware boot sequences.
Experience with automotive communication technologies, in-vehicle networking, or E2B technology.
Experience verifying communication protocols, packet-based interfaces, control channels, diagnostics, and error-recovery mechanisms.
Knowledge of automotive functional safety development and ISO 26262 verification practices.
Experience with fault injection, safety-mechanism verification, requirements traceability, and functional safety evidence generation.
Experience with emulation, FPGA prototyping, virtual platforms, or pre-silicon firmware development.
Knowledge of formal verification, clock-domain crossing, reset-domain crossing, low-power verification, or gate-level simulation.
Experience working with analog behavioral models or mixed-signal verification environments.
Familiarity with automotive cybersecurity concepts and secure communication mechanisms.
Experience with continuous integration, regression automation, and verification dashboards.
Preferred Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
Master’s degree preferred.
4–8 years of relevant digital or mixed-signal IC verification experience.
Experience verifying processor-based SoCs and delivering designs through verification closure.
Experience with automotive semiconductor products or communication SoCs is preferred.
Why You Will Love Working Here
At Analog Devices, you will be part of a collaborative and innovative team developing next-generation automotive connectivity solutions. You will work with experienced architects, designers, firmware developers, functional safety engineers, and validation teams to solve challenging system-level problems and deliver robust semiconductor products.
We offer an environment focused on professional growth, technical innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. Your work will contribute to technologies that enable reliable, efficient, and high-performance communication inside the vehicles of the future.
For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.
Analog Devices is an equal opportunity employer. We foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed regardless of their race, color, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, social or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, union membership, and political affiliation, or any other legally protected group.
Job Req Type: ExperiencedRequired Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- 4-8 years of relevant digital or mixed-signal IC verification experience
- Expert-level SystemVerilog and UVM experience developing reusable verification environments
- Experience verifying complex SoCs with embedded processors, memories, buses, peripherals, interrupts, and communication subsystems
- Hands-on C/SystemVerilog DPI development and integration of C or reference models
- Ability to create verification plans, test scenarios, functional coverage, and sign-off criteria
- Experience with constrained-random verification, functional coverage, code coverage, and assertion-based verification
- Experience developing firmware-driven tests and debugging embedded software and RTL interactions
- Strong debugging skills across UVM testbenches, RTL, embedded C, and system-level environments
- Proficiency in Python, Tcl, Perl, shell scripting, or similar automation languages
- Ability to lead verification activities, conduct technical reviews, mentor engineers, and influence methodology adoption
- Master's degree
- Experience with RISC-V, ARM, or other embedded processor architectures
- Automotive communication, in-vehicle networking, or E2B experience
- Knowledge of automotive functional safety and ISO 26262 verification practices
- Experience with fault injection, requirements traceability, and safety evidence generation
- Experience with emulation, FPGA prototyping, virtual platforms, or pre-silicon firmware development
- Knowledge of formal verification, clock-domain crossing, reset-domain crossing, low-power verification, or gate-level simulation
- Experience with analog behavioral models or mixed-signal verification environments
- Familiarity with automotive cybersecurity and secure communication mechanisms
- Experience with continuous integration, regression automation, and verification dashboards
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off appears broad, with vacation ranging from roughly 17–25 days and increasing up to five weeks with tenure, alongside sick time and paid holidays. Parental leave and related time-off provisions further expand coverage.
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What We Do
Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) operates at the center of the modern digital economy, converting real-world phenomena into actionable insight with its comprehensive suite of analog and mixed signal, power management, radio frequency (RF), and digital and sensor technologies. ADI serves 125,000 customers worldwide with more than 75,000 products in the industrial, communications, automotive, and consumer markets. ADI is headquartered in Wilmington, MA.
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