Senior Staff Applications Verification Engineer (Cork/Limerick)
About the Role
This senior staff applications verification engineer position requires onsite work for a minimum of 3 days per week. You will contribute to the company's success by collaborating with various teams, including applications, verification, design, firmware, and systems architecture teams.
Responsibilities
1. Development and responsibility for pre-silicon HW emulation and IC evaluation plans.
2. Design of verification IP for portability between UVM pre-silicon verification environments, FPGA-based HW emulation platforms, and final silicon.
3. System performance evaluation of candidate designs for IC tapeout.
4. Responsibility for HW emulation test-plan delivery and completeness prior to IC tapeouts.
5. Benchmarking of FPGA and IC applications performance against customer requirements/specifications.
6. Development of methodologies and procedures to ensure high levels of data discipline to support HW platform robustness, repeatability of bench-level testing, and quality of results.
7. Development of lab-based automation for instrument control, HW platform control, data collection, and results analysis.
8. Design, development, and maintenance of HW platforms to support IC designs.
9. Protocol compliance testing of proprietary digital communications interfaces.
10. Verification of digital protocol interfaces for full specification compliance.
Requirements
* A comprehensive background in power semiconductors/semiconductor physics and/or electronics engineering.
* A logical approach to tasks, along with the ability and motivation to develop novel and creative ideas.
* Excellent communication skills for seamless collaboration within the team and with external partners.
* A degree qualification in Electronic Engineering or similar.
* 10+ years' relevant engineering experience.
* Experience and knowledge of power conversion.
* Extensive experience in the development and ownership of design evaluation plans.
* Experience in HW emulation as a tool for pre-silicon verification of IC designs.
* Deep understanding of power systems and insight into performance improvements and optimizations.
Contact Information
For further information, please contact Software Placements.