Sr Staff Engineer - Design Verification

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

Job Purpose and Dimensions:

The purpose of this job is to help guarantee specification compliancy of the digital design by means of verification methodology and concepts. It supports the definition and enhancement of state-of-the art methodologies serving as clear verification sign-off criteria for tape out.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Support a technical interface between other CMS teams and any local contract DV resources.
• Support verification strategy for digital and mixed signal IPs and implement the verification IP following object-oriented programming principles and methodologies including UVM.
• Support Verification planning, maintenance, feature extraction, verification tests, coverage and checker development.
• Support the development of efficient, reusable state-of-the-art verification environments and testbench structures.
• Attend review meetings with design/verification engineers
• Support physical silicon device evaluation where necessary, and develop work-around solutions to overcome device errata
• Able to debug the RTL for design intent and interface with cross-functional teams and collaboration in all verification related activities.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate has an experience of 10+ years in state-of-the art verification methodologies related to the verification of SoCs · Fluent in System Verilog RTL coding and ASIC design methodology · System Verilog for verification using advanced verification methodologies (preferably UVM or similar such as Specman-e, OVM, SystemC, etc.)
• Assertion based verification and Formal verification.
• Fluent in constrained random verification and metric driven verification
• Fluent in simulation and regressions tools e.g., Cadence Incisive, vManager, IMC
• Familiar with either system Verilog or VHDL RTL coding and ASIC design methodology
• Familiar with behavioral modelling of analog blocks would be beneficial.
• Good knowledge of UNIX shell scripting, Perl and TCL scripting
• Experience in writing verification plans and test bench development, simulation and debugging.

General:

• Concise and proactive communication skills within a multi-site and multi-cultural environment
• Ability to persuade and influence others based on technical facts.
• Ability to interact with customers · Ability to successfully work with 3rd party contractors.
• Takes responsibility for solutions and makes them happen, self-motivated.
• Looks for continuous improvement in own and Renesas work practices.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.