Principal Engineer, Design Verification Engineering

What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end SoC verification for complex digital SoCs, driving execution from planning to signoff.
• Verify complex microprocessor-based designs, AI/ML accelerators, and high-speed peripherals using advanced verification methodologies.
• Define and drive team execution by planning tasks, tracking progress, and providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance.
• Collaborate closely with architecture and design teams to define requirements and align on verification deliverables and dependencies.
• Drive pre-silicon readiness by aligning with emulation, FPGA, and software teams to cover post-silicon validation scenarios early.
• Develop and execute end-to-end system-level use cases for comprehensive functional validation.
• Architect and implement scalable UVM-based testbenches, DV flows, and methodologies.
• Define and review test plans; ensure closure of functional and code coverage across block, subsystem, and SoC levels.
• Work cross-functionally with emulation, FPGA, firmware, and system teams to ensure full-system correctness.
• Apply formal verification techniques for IP and subsystem-level validation.
• Lead NoC/interconnect verification and ensure robust data flow across the SoC.
• Perform performance verification and system-level analysis across real-world use cases.
• Drive innovation in verification strategies to meet aggressive schedules and quality goals.
• Define overall verification strategy based on product requirements and design specifications, leveraging modern techniques such as formal, emulation, portable stimulus, and virtual platforms.
• Requirements B.Tech/M.Tech with 12+ years of experience in digital pre-silicon verification, including leadership across IP, subsystem, or SoC-level DV.
• Strong understanding of SoC/Subsystem architectures with hands-on expertise in Verilog/SystemVerilog and UVM-based testbench development, debugging, and methodology implementation.
• Proven track record in verification closure using functional and code coverage metrics across block, subsystem, and SoC levels.
• Expertise in NoC, bus, and interconnect verification, along with coverage analysis and optimization.
• Experience in architecting scalable testbench environments and defining robust DV flows and methodologies.
• Strong background in power-aware verification (UPF), including power analysis and optimization.
• Hands-on experience with formal verification, including flow definition, connectivity, and functional property checking.
• Solid protocol knowledge and verification experience across high-speed and low-speed interfaces such as I2C, SPI, Ethernet, UART, AXI/AHB, DMA, and SVI3.
• Experience in security and safety verification, ensuring compliance with secure design and functional safety requirements.
• Familiarity with gate-level simulations with timing annotation (GLS).
• Strong expertise in test planning, constrained-random verification, assertions, and transaction-level modeling.
• Good understanding of processor-based systems (ARM, RISC-V, Tensilica), AI/ML accelerators, and proficiency in C/C++, SystemC, and scripting (Python/TCL/Shell).
• Exposure to mixed-signal/analog verification (ADC/DAC/PLL/PHY) is a plus.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate across global teams and drive verification innovation.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies #LI-SM1 For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S.
• Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S.
• Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
• As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.
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• Job Req Type: Experienced Required Travel: Yes, 10% of the time Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days