Job description
Job Title: Senior 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 NXP’s 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 System. Verilog 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, System. Verilog (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 More information about NXP in the United States... NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals. #LI-6692