Lead Design Verification

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 500000 - Rs 6000000 (ie INR 5 - 60 LPA)

Min Experience: 7+ years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced Lead Design Verification Engineer with 7–18 years of experience to drive the verification of complex digital and SoC designs. This role is ideal for professionals who have extensive expertise in verification methodologies and are passionate about building high-quality, reliable semiconductor products. As a technical leader, you will be responsible for defining verification strategies, developing reusable verification environments, mentoring engineering teams, and ensuring first-pass silicon success. The ideal candidate should possess deep knowledge of SystemVerilog, UVM, and DisplayPort verification, along with strong debugging and problem-solving capabilities.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end verification activities for complex digital IPs, subsystems, and SoC designs.
• Develop comprehensive verification plans based on design specifications and functional requirements.
• Build scalable, reusable, and modular verification environments using SystemVerilog and UVM.
• Create constrained-random testbenches, assertions, scoreboards, functional coverage models, and verification components.
• Verify DisplayPort IPs and interfaces across multiple protocol versions and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Collaborate closely with design, architecture, firmware, validation, and physical design teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Perform simulation, debugging, root cause analysis, and issue resolution for functional failures.
• Drive coverage closure by monitoring functional, code, and assertion coverage metrics.
• Participate in design reviews, specification analysis, and architecture discussions to improve design quality and testability.
• Develop automation scripts to improve verification productivity and regression efficiency.
• Analyze protocol compliance, timing behavior, corner cases, and system-level interactions.
• Mentor junior verification engineers and provide technical guidance on verification best practices.
• Support post-silicon validation teams in debugging and resolving silicon issues when required.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 7–18 years of hands-on experience in Design Verification for ASIC, FPGA, or SoC development.
• Strong expertise in digital design verification methodologies and industry-standard verification flows.
• Excellent analytical, debugging, and communication skills.
• Experience leading verification teams or owning verification deliverables for complex projects is highly preferred.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong expertise in SystemVerilog for developing advanced verification environments.
• Extensive experience with UVM (Universal Verification Methodology) including reusable verification components, sequences, agents, scoreboards, and functional coverage.
• Hands-on experience verifying DisplayPort protocols and related interfaces.
• Expertise in constrained-random verification techniques and assertion-based verification.
• Experience with simulation, waveform debugging, regression management, and coverage-driven verification.
• Strong understanding of digital logic design, computer architecture, and hardware verification concepts.
• Experience with protocol verification, functional coverage, code coverage, and coverage closure.
• Familiarity with industry-standard EDA simulation and debugging tools.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with additional high-speed protocols such as PCIe, USB, HDMI, MIPI, Ethernet, or DDR.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Shell, or TCL for automation.
• Exposure to Formal Verification methodologies.
• Experience with emulation, FPGA prototyping, or hardware acceleration platforms.
• Understanding of low-power verification methodologies including UPF/CPF.
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows for verification automation.
• Knowledge of SoC integration, AMBA protocols (AXI, AHB, APB), and embedded systems.
• Experience supporting post-silicon validation and debug activities.