SOC verification Manager/Lead

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 SOC verification Manager/Lead

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Verification experts to lead verification activities for complex SoC designs. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in SoC-level verification, power management verification, low-power verification methodologies, and SoC verification architecture development. This role involves defining verification strategies, architecting scalable verification environments, driving functional and power-aware verification closure, and mentoring verification teams across multiple projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the overall SoC verification strategy for complex multi-billion transistor SoCs.
• Architect and develop scalable, reusable, and robust SoC verification environments using industry-standard methodologies.
• Lead end-to-end verification planning, execution, coverage closure, and sign-off activities.
• Drive power management verification, including validation of power state transitions, power controllers, reset sequencing, clock management, and power domain interactions.
• Lead low-power verification using UPF/CPF methodologies and ensure compliance with low-power design intent.
• Develop and review verification architectures, test plans, assertions, checkers, scoreboards, and coverage models.
• Collaborate closely with architecture, RTL design, firmware, emulation, validation, and physical design teams.
• Drive debug and root-cause analysis of complex SoC-level issues.
• Establish verification best practices, automation frameworks, and verification metrics.
• Support verification across simulation, emulation, FPGA prototyping, and post-silicon validation environments.
• Mentor and technically lead a team of verification engineers.
• Participate in design reviews and contribute to architecture discussions from a verification perspective.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Expertise

• 12–20 years of experience in VLSI Design Verification with a strong focus on SoC verification.
• Proven experience in:
• SoC-Level Verification
• SoC Verification Architecture
• Power Management Verification
• Low-Power Verification
• Functional Verification and Coverage Closure
• Strong understanding of SoC architectures involving CPUs, interconnects, memory subsystems, peripherals, and accelerators.
• Expertise in SystemVerilog and UVM-based verification methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with assertion-based verification (SVA).
• Strong experience with UPF/CPF and power-aware simulation flows.
• Deep understanding of:
• Power domains
• Retention strategies
• Isolation techniques
• Level shifters
• Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS)
• Power state management
• Experience with verification planning, coverage analysis, and regression management.
• Strong debugging skills in complex SoC environments.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms.
• Exposure to firmware-assisted verification and hardware/software co-verification.
• Experience in AI/ML, networking, automotive, mobile, data center, or high-performance computing SoCs.
• Knowledge of formal verification techniques.
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Perl, or Shell.

Leadership Expectations

• Provide technical leadership for large verification programs.
• Drive verification methodology improvements and standardization.
• Mentor and develop junior and senior verification engineers.
• Influence architecture and design decisions through verification insights.
• Collaborate with global cross-functional teams to ensure successful project execution.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

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