Staff SoC Boot Verification Engineer

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We are looking for an experienced SoC Boot Verification Engineer to own pre-silicon verification of SoC boot flows—from supply ramp up to power-on reset through secure boot, ROM execution, and transition to second-stage loaders. You will ensure first-time-right bring-up across diverse boot media and configurations by defining verification strategies, architecting robust environments, and driving sign-off for boot correctness, robustness, security, and performance at the SoC level.

What You Will Do

• Boot Verification:
  • Own SoC boot verification across cold/warm boot/resets, strap/fuse/OTP configurations, boot mode selection, and firmware/OS hand-off.
  • Define coverage goals and sign-off criteria.
  • Verify authentication/encryption behavior, key provisioning interfaces, and failure/resilience paths.
  • Regression stability, MTTR on boot failures, and timely closure of security-sensitive defects.
• Boot Media & Interfaces:
  • Develop VIP/BFMs and test scenarios for QSPI/NOR/NAND, eMMC/SD, USB/UART/JTAG, PCIe or network boot.
  • Validate timeouts, retries, and error escalation.
  • Verify Analog Supply Ramp up, Analog Blocks & POR sequencing, clock/PLL enablement, power islands and retention, and their interaction with boot ROM.
• Environment & Methodology:
  • Architect reusable UVM SystemVerilog environments, scoreboards, monitors, coverage models, and assertions.
  • Drive constrained-random plus directed testing for corner cases.
  • Plan and run power aware gate-level simulations (SDF) for boot timing/CDC/RDC critical paths.
• HW/SW Co-verification:
  • Collaborate with security/firmware and bring-up teams to validate second-stage loaders, bootloader APIs, patch flows, and secure update paths.
  • Mentor engineers, review test plans, and drive methodology improvements across DV teams and programs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: B.Tech/M.Tech in EE/CE or related field.
• Experience: 8–14 years in SoC/DV with substantial boot/ROM/secure boot work; end-to-end ownership of complex subsystems. Proven leadership of SoC boot verification and cross-functional delivery at scale.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Strong UVM/SystemVerilog, assertions, coverage-driven verification; regression management and debug at RTL/gate.
  • Good understanding of reset/clock/power and mixed-signal elements at chip-top.
  • Python/Tcl for stimulus, log parsing, coverage analytics; CI (Jenkins), source control (Git/Perforce).

Behavioral & Collaboration Expectations

• Clear communication with architecture, RTL, security, and firmware teams.
• Crisp bug reporting and issue reproduction; data-driven closure and risk management.

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