Principal Verification Engineer

Job Title: Principal Verification Engineer

Location: Austin

Role Summary:

This position is within the MME MCU/MPU Digital IP team.

We develop best-in-class digital IPs for NXPs automotive and advanced microcontroller businesses delivering sensor and processing technologies that enable secure connected vehicles today and autonomous vehicles of the future.

Drive a zero-defect mindset across the verification team

Provide technical leadership and guidance on complex verification challenges

Mentor and grow a small team of engineers

Job Responsibility:

Define and execute verification plans

Develop and implement verification testbenches

Develop testbench components such as drivers monitors and scoreboards and leverage advanced UVM VIPs

Develop directed and constrained-random stimulus

Analyze RTL functional coverage and assertion coverage results

Define and develop functional coverage models

Develop and maintain SystemVerilog assertions (SVA)

Apply formal verification methodologies

Demonstrate strong debugging skills including failure reproduction and root-cause analysis

Exhibit strong analytical and problem-solving skills; familiarity with major simulation and debug tools is a plus

Job Qualification:

BSEE with 5 years of semiconductor industry experience or

MSEE with 3 years of experience or

PhD with 1 years of experience

Technical Skills

Knowledge of protocols such as DDR PCIe AMBA (CHI ACE AXI)

Strong expertise in Verilog SystemVerilog (VHDL is a plus)

Experience with OVM/UVM and class-based verification methodologies

Experience with formal verification methodologies

Experience leveraging AI/LLM-based approaches to improve engineering efficiency

Test pattern debugging and validation on simulation and automated test environments

Scripting in Python Perl and UNIX/Linux

Familiarity with functional and code coverage methodologies

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