Senior Design Verification Engineer/Lead - UVM/AMBA Protocols

Senior Design Verification Engineer / Lead

Experience : 9 - 14 Years

Location : Bangalore / Kochi / Chennai / Pune

Job Type : Full-time

About the Role :

We are seeking an experienced Senior Design Verification Engineer / Lead to drive verification activities for complex IP/SoC projects. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in SystemVerilog, UVM, AMBA protocols, ARM CPU verification, and verification environment architecture, along with the ability to independently own verification deliverables.

Key Responsibilities :

- Own verification strategy and execution for complex IP, subsystem, or SoC-level projects.

- Architect, develop, and enhance scalable SystemVerilog/UVM verification environments.

- Define verification plans, test strategies, coverage goals, and regression methodologies.

- Develop reusable verification components including monitors, drivers, scoreboards, checkers, sequences, and assertions.

- Drive constrained-random verification, functional coverage, code coverage, and coverage closure.

- Lead verification of AMBA protocols and ARM CPU-based systems.

- Work on PCI Express and/or Ethernet protocol verification as required.

- Analyze complex failures and lead root-cause debugging across RTL, testbench, and system-level environments.

- Collaborate closely with RTL designers, architects, firmware, validation, and system teams.

- Identify verification gaps and introduce automation and process improvements.

- Develop automation frameworks and utilities using Python, Perl, Shell, and Makefile.

- Review verification code, test plans, coverage reports, and debug methodologies.

- Mentor junior and mid-level verification engineers.

- Track project progress, risks, bugs, coverage, and verification sign-off criteria.

Required Skills :

- 9 - 14 years of hands-on experience in Design Verification.

- Strong expertise in SystemVerilog and UVM.

- Proven experience architecting and implementing functional verification environments.

- Strong knowledge of AMBA protocols and ARM CPU architecture.

- Experience with PCIe and/or Ethernet protocols is highly desirable.

- Strong understanding of constrained-random verification, assertions, functional coverage, and coverage closure.

- Excellent debugging and root-cause analysis capabilities.

- Strong Unix/Linux experience.

- Experience with configuration management, bug tracking, regression, and verification dashboarding tools.

- Strong scripting/automation skills using Python, Perl, Shell, and/or Makefile.

- Ability to independently drive verification milestones and deliverables.

Preferred Skills :

- Experience in complex SoC, CPU, subsystem, or high-speed interface verification.

- Experience defining verification architecture and methodology for new projects.

- Exposure to formal verification or other advanced verification methodologies.

- Strong code review and mentoring experience.

- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills