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DSP ASIC Verification Engineer - Optical Transmission Systems
CienaGermany- Braunschweig3+ years
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Ciena’s WaveLogic family of products is a core component of optical transmission solutions, enabling high-performance telecommunications networks globally. This role contributes to the validation and quality of these products through rigorous digital verification. The position plays a critical role in ensuring reliable functionality across complex subsystems and architectural components.
How you will make an impact:
- Design and execute verification activities for architectural functional blocks within the WaveLogic product family
- Analyse architecture and functional requirement specifications and collaborate with systems engineers and architects
- Develop and implement validation strategies using simulation, formal methods, and coverage techniques
- Create and integrate verification environments including test benches, agents, scoreboards, and test scenarios using SystemVerilog UVM and/or C
- Define and implement functional coverage models and contribute to verification planning
- Perform coverage-driven verification, analyse regression results, and debug failures in collaboration with design engineers
- Report verification progress, issues, and status updates on a regular basis.
The must haves:
- Education: Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or other applicable scientific discipline
- Experience: 3+ years of experience in digital design verification of complex circuits
- Application of SV-UVM, SVA, and C++ in verification environments
- Creation of verification plans based on functional and architectural specifications
- Development of verification environments using SV-UVM and C++
- Application of metric-driven verification methods including functional coverage
- Utilization of EDA verification tools and flows from major vendors.
- Candidates should have good English communication skills, solid problem-solving capabilities, and demonstrate a high level of motivation with the ability to work independently.
Nice to haves:
- Experience: Experience with formal verification methods
- Experience: Experience with coherent DSP architectures
- Experience: Experience with standards and protocols such as OTN/FlexO/B100G and Ethernet (100GE+)
- Experience: Experience using GIT for source code management and revision tracking
- Experience: Experience using Jira for schedule planning, assignment tracking, and bug reporting
- Application of programming languages such as Python, Make, Bash, C, and C++
- Basic communication skills in German.
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