Your role and responsibilities
- As a Functional verification engineer, you will be working on IBM server processors/SOC or ASICs used in IBM servers.
- Leading the development of the verification environment, testbenches and writing testcases.
- Develop skills in IBM Functional verification tools and methodologies.
- Owning and Driving execution of subunits/unit level Verification
- Work with design as well as other key stakeholders in debugging and fixing logic design issues and deliver a quality design
- Work with development team to ensure coverage criteria is met.
- Work with logic and development teams to identify test scenarios, create test plans and execute the scenarios.
- Work with IBM Verification community to improve Verification methodology.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 12 + years of experience in Functional Verification of processors or ASICs.
- Minimum 9+ years of experience in any of the following
- Computer architecture knowledge, Processor core design specifications, instruction set architecture and logic verification.
- Core architecture/micro-architecture verification
- Multi-processor cache coherency, Memory subsystem verification.
- IO subsystem knowledge, any of the protocols like PCIE/CXL, DDR, Flash, Ethernet etc
- AXI/AHB/ACE/ACE-lite fabric verification or any other SoC fabric verification.
- Gate level simulation and emulation.
- Track record in leading teams
- Clock domain crossing and reset domain crossing verification
- Knowledge of functional verification methodology - UVM/OVM/System Verilog/SystemC/
- Knowledge of HDLs (Verilog, VHDL)
- Developed test-plans and test strategies for IP/unit/block level verification.
- Good object-oriented programming skills in C/C++, scripting languages like Python/Perl.
- Worked on multiple levels of verification (unit/element/sub-system/system level)
- Development experience on Linux/Unix environments, GIT repositories and good understanding of Continuous Integration and DevOps workflow
- Exposure in developing testbench environment, write complex test scenario, debugging and triaging fails
- Experience in driving verification coverage closure.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Stress testing and ability to identify corner case scenarios.
- Knowledge of high-speed SERDES and PHY Verification
- Good understanding of computer system architecture and microarchitecture.
- Knowledge in IP Integration and SoC level verification.
- Good understanding of the Server System
