Senior Staff Digital IC Verification Engineer

at  MaxLinear Inc

Responsibilities:

MaxLinear is seeking a Senior Staff Digital IC Verification Engineer to join our Design and Verification team to provide innovative IPs and subsystem solutions for the challenges in wired and wireless communications and networking domains. You will work in a diverse team and participate in VLSI verification activities in a cross-functional, dynamic IC development environment. In this role, you will focus mainly on:

• Perform verification of modules and subsystems including digital signal processing modules, networking components (eg. packet processing/protocol accelerator modules) as well as in high speed peripheral interfaces (integration of analogue IP modules such as SerDes PHYs) for complex IC/SOCs
• Own and create verification plans based on specifications
• Develop testbenches in SpecmanE/SV/UVM environments for RTL simulations and GLS
• Create and run directed and random testcases to achieve coverage targets and validate functional and performance requirements of design
• Support and provide verification expertise and documentation to meet engineering challenges, schedule and quality goals through executing in-house methodology and standard industry tools
• Collaborate closely with cross domain teams including silicon/system architects, designers, system validation and SW engineering teams to ensure successful pre/post silicon validation of these IPs or subsystems in ASIC/SOC products
• Create solutions to support continuous improvement and learning in digital IP verification methodologies and flows

Qualifications:

• Strong fundamentals and proven expertise in digital IC verification methodology, programming and SOC
• Specialization in High-Speed Interfaces and industry protocols standards such as PCIe, USB, Ethernet IEEE 802.3 standards, AXI, AHB buses etc.
• 8 years and above of experience in Digital IC verification at IP/subsystem level including:-
• Strong RTL verification skills using SpecmanE/C/SystemVerilog/UVM methodology
• Expertise in RTL simulations and GLS debug using industry standard tools
• Expertise to achieve comprehensive Functional and Code coverage using industry standard tools
• Knowledge and expertise in understanding standards, specification or requirements documents and define test environment, test plan to meet the requirements
• Experience in development of Verification IP, Bus functional models, Monitor, Protocol checkers and setting up of regression environment
• Knowledge and hands on experience of scripting languages (Python, Perl) and expertise in using them to automate verification tasks and regressions
• Knowledge and hands on experience with testing pre-silicon prototypes as well as post silicon testing in a lab environment is desirable
• Strong analytical, problem solving and debugging skills
• Proven written and verbal communication skills that demonstrate clarity of thought and conviction
• Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Electronics/Communications Engineering

Company Overview:
MaxLinear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.
We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.
MaxLinear began by developing the world’s first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn’t achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs. Since then, we’ve developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long-haul optical interconnects; bring 10Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments. Over the years, we’ve expanded through organic growth and through several acquisitions that have perfectly complemented our existing portfolio and enabled us to deliver complete end-to-end solutions in our target markets. One such example was the acquisition of Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division that added Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Broadband Gateway Processor SoC technology to our connected home portfolio creating a complete and scalable platform of connectivity and access solutions to fully address our customers’ needs.
Our headquarters are in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, California; Waltham, Massachusetts; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore and Chennai, India; Villach, Austria; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.
We have approximately 1,500 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world. Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside-the-box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration. Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market

• Perform verification of modules and subsystems including digital signal processing modules, networking components (eg. packet processing/protocol accelerator modules) as well as in high speed peripheral interfaces (integration of analogue IP modules such as SerDes PHYs) for complex IC/SOCs
• Own and create verification plans based on specifications
• Develop testbenches in SpecmanE/SV/UVM environments for RTL simulations and GLS
• Create and run directed and random testcases to achieve coverage targets and validate functional and performance requirements of design
• Support and provide verification expertise and documentation to meet engineering challenges, schedule and quality goals through executing in-house methodology and standard industry tools
• Collaborate closely with cross domain teams including silicon/system architects, designers, system validation and SW engineering teams to ensure successful pre/post silicon validation of these IPs or subsystems in ASIC/SOC products
• Create solutions to support continuous improvement and learning in digital IP verification methodologies and flow