SoC Verification Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 3+ years

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
JobType: full-time

We are looking for a skilled SoC Verification Engineer to join our semiconductor design and verification team. In this role, you will be responsible for validating complex ARM-based System-on-Chip (SoC) designs through comprehensive verification methodologies. You will work closely with design, architecture, and validation teams to ensure functional correctness, performance, and quality of next-generation SoC products.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in SoC Design Verification, SystemVerilog (SV), UVM, and gate-level verification, along with experience in developing scalable verification environments and achieving coverage closure.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive verification plans for SoC-level functionality.
• Design and implement test cases for complex SoC verification scenarios covering functional, integration, and system-level features.
• Build and enhance reusable SystemVerilog/UVM-based verification environments for efficient validation.
• Execute gate-level simulations (GLS) to validate design functionality, timing behavior, and identify implementation-related issues.
• Debug failures observed during gate-level and low-power simulations, perform root cause analysis, and collaborate with design teams for resolution.
• Drive functional and code coverage closure by developing targeted test scenarios and improving verification completeness.
• Verify ARM-based SoC subsystems, peripherals, and interconnects across multiple integration levels.
• Analyze simulation results, identify corner-case issues, and ensure high-quality verification sign-off.
• Collaborate with RTL designers, architects, physical design engineers, and firmware teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Validate low-power design features including power domains, retention, isolation, and power sequencing.
• Participate in verification reviews, debugging sessions, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Maintain verification documentation, test plans, regression reports, and coverage metrics.

Required Skills

• Strong experience in SoC Design Verification.
• Hands-on expertise in SystemVerilog (SV) and UVM testbench development.
• Good programming knowledge in C.
• Experience developing reusable verification components, sequences, scoreboards, monitors, and assertions.
• Strong understanding of ARM-based SoC architecture and system-level verification scenarios.
• Experience executing and debugging Gate Level Simulations (GLS).
• Experience working with Low Power Verification methodologies.
• Good understanding of coverage-driven verification, functional coverage, and coverage closure techniques.
• Familiarity with industry-standard simulation and debugging tools.
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.

Must-Have Skills

• SoC Verification Engineer
• Design Verification
• UVM
• SystemVerilog (SV)
• Gate Level Simulation (GLS)
• Coverage Closure
• ARM-based SoC Verification
• C Programming

Good-to-Have Skills

• Knowledge of AMBA Bus Protocols including:
• APB
• AHB
• AXI
• Low Power Verification (UPF/CPF concepts)
• Assertions (SVA)
• Regression automation and scripting using Python, Perl, or Shell
• Experience with emulation or FPGA prototyping is an advantage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, VLSI, or a related discipline.
• 3-10 years of experience in SoC Design Verification within semiconductor or ASIC development environments.
• Proven experience in UVM-based verification methodology and complex SoC validation.