Position Overview 

We are seeking a Senior FPGA Verification Engineer with 4–8 years of experience to design, develop, and execute comprehensive verification strategies for complex FPGA designs. This role requires strong hands-on expertise in System Verilog and UVM, testbench architecture, and cross-functional collaboration with design and system teams. 

 Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and maintain System Verilog/UVM-based verification environments for FPGA block-level and top-level designs  
• Create and execute verification plans, directed and constrained-random test scenarios, assertions, and functional coverage  
• Perform simulation-based verification of FPGA designs using industry-standard simulators  
• Drive debug and root-cause analysis of functional issues and work closely with FPGA RTL designers
• Integrate and maintain VIPs, scoreboards, checkers, and reference models  
• Support FPGA bring-up, validation, and debug activities on FPGA platforms and evaluation boards  
• Review FPGA RTL, verification code, and test plans to ensure quality and completeness  
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to FPGA verification best practices
• Support regression runs, coverage closure, and release signoff 

Qualifications 

Education:  

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field 

Experience: 

4–8 years of hands-on experience in functional verification 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Familiarity with cadence tools like Xcelium 
• Familiarity with Xilinx Vivado 
• Experience with hardware/software co-verification  
• Knowledge of high-speed interfaces (AXI, AXIStream, DDR, SPI)  

Soft Skills: 

• Strong analytical and debugging skills  
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  
• Self-driven with the ability to own verification tasks end-to-end  
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality 

Technology Stack: 

• Languages: System Verilog, Verilog, VHDL (working knowledge)  
• Verification Methodology: UVM  
• Simulation Tools: Xcelium, Questa, VCS  
• FPGA Tools: Xilinx Vivado  
• Debug Tools: SimVision  
• Scripting: Python, Tcl, Shell  
• Version Control: Git   

Physical Requirements 

• Ability to work in a standard office environment  
• Ability to use a computer for extended periods  
• Occasional lab work for FPGA bring-up and debug 

This job description may not be inclusive to the duties and responsibilities listed. Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time or the scope of the job may change as needed by business demands. 

We are looking for a talented engineer to join our CPU design team to define and implement CPU system RTL. You’ll work to combine multiple cores, multiple clusters of cores, fabrics and subsystem components together, collaborating with DV, PD, architecture and performance teams to deliver a functional, timing, and power-converged design.

This role is hybrid, based out of Bengaluru, India.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Who You Are

• An experienced micro-architect who thrives in building CPU systems (multiple cores, multiple clusters of cores and subsystem components) from scratch.
• Skilled in RTL coding (Verilog/VHDL) and familiar with industry-standard tools for simulation, synthesis, and power analysis.
• Proficient in debugging RTL/logic across multiple design hierarchies and pre/post-silicon environments.
• Background in microarchitecture definition, design specification, and performance-driven trade-off analysis.

What We Need

• 10+ years of industry experience with strong CPU systems RTL and microarchitecture background.
• Collaborate closely with DV, PD, architecture and performance engineers to meet functional, timing, and power goals.
• Use innovative techniques to optimize power, performance, and area while driving RTL experiments and evaluating results.
• Partner with validation and test teams to ensure robust pre-silicon and post-silicon execution.
• Enhance RTL design environment, tools, and methodologies to improve development efficiency.

What You Will Learn

• End-to-end exposure to CPU design from microarchitecture through timing and power convergence.
• How to design and optimize a custom RISC-V CPU system from first principles.
• Integration of open-source and industry-standard tools to improve RTL flows and results.
• Work in a deeply technical, highly collaborative team solving cutting-edge CPU design challenges.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Staff DFT Engineer to join a rapidly growing DFT design team focused on next-generation AI accelerator SoCs. In this role, you will define, architect, and implement current and future DFT/DFX solutions, supporting advanced SoC designs that leverage innovative memory-centric compute and heterogeneous chiplet architectures.

This is a highly hands-on role requiring both deep technical execution and high-level planning, working across design, verification, product, and test teams to ensure robust manufacturability and silicon bring-up.

Location:

Hybrid, working onsite at our Bengaluru, Karnataka, headquarters 3-5 days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive DFT partitioning strategies for ATPG, including hierarchical and scalable approaches.

• Implement ATPG compression and serialization, and perform RTL scan insertion with associated design rule fixes.

• Own Memory BIST (MBIST) solutions, including memory repair and in-system test (IST), from implementation through verification and silicon debug.

• Support boundary scan and define DFT mode constraints for IPs, providing timing feedback to STA teams.

• Generate and integrate DFT RTL, ensuring quality through RTL-level checks (e.g., linting and DFT rule verification).

• Apply and support IEEE 1149.1, IEEE 1500, and IEEE 1687 standards.

• Execute and verify ATPG (SAF, TDF) and MBIST using unit-delay and min/max timing simulations.

• Perform detailed ATPG coverage analysis and drive coverage closure.

• Collaborate with product and test engineering teams to deliver manufacturing test patterns for ATE.

• Develop diagnostic tools and flows for ATPG, MBIST, and silicon bring-up on ATE.

• Work hands-on with industry-standard DFT tools, contributing from low-level implementation through architectural planning.

Minimum Qualifications

• BE/ME (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 7+ years of experience in DFT, including scan test and MBIST.

• Proficiency with HDLs such as Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL.

• Experience with scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, Perl, TCL, C).

• Strong ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional and diverse teams.

• Experience producing clear, detailed technical documentation.

You will do:

 Construct SoC level test benches using verification components developed at the IP level. Test bench architecture for 
random/directed testing, stimulus generation, and checking to include custom and off the shelf VIP/UVCs.
• Develop and execute SoC verification plans focused on IP block interoperability and SOC/System level. Develop and 
execute verification plans based on design specifications and collaboration with architects and designers.
• Develop RAL test plan at SOC/IP level and its implementation.
• Verify SoC using advanced verification methodologies.
• Construct HW/SW Co-Verification environment - test-benches, use-cases,
• APIs, sequences. Execute and Debug use-cases.
• Be part of a dynamic and functionally diverse team with opportunities for gaining exposure to modeling (TLM), HW 
emulation/acceleration, and SW driven verification.
• Work with design team to understand design intent and bring up verification plans and schedules.
• You will think through design corner cases and be able to write relevant cover points.
• Debug test cases and report verification result to achieve expected code/functional coverage goal. Utilize constrained 
random verification, functional coverage, code coverage and assertions to achieve goals.
• Assist in emulation, FPGA, prototyping efforts.
• Implement / maintain automated verification flows in languages such as Python, Perl/ Shell scripts.

Required Qualifications:

• BSEE or MSEE, with experience in ASIC development and/or FPGA prototyping
• 7+ years of experience in RTL design using Verilog, SystemVerilog
• Understanding of Digital Signal Processing theory, and mapping to design
• Experience in WiFi Physical Layer, and/or other Physical layer like Cellular (WiMax, LTE, NR), Bluetooth, Zigbee, UWB, and/or other Physical layer (Ethernet) technologies
• Ability to work independently, and proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Experience with Incisive/Excellium/VCS, Verdi, Jasper/Spyglass or equivalent tools
• Experience in partitioning, synthesis, placement, timing closure for FPGA and/or ASICs
• Experience with front-end design and integration tasks including lint, CDC, synthesis, and developing timing ECOs.
• Enjoy debugging, and problem solving in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• • Master’s degree in engineering (or equivalent) or Bachelor’s degree in EE/EC/CS.
  • 10+ years of experience in design verification - Proven experience in full chip verification from test plan development to 
  tape-out sign-off. A good understanding of the complete verification life cycle (test plan, testbench through coverage 
  closure) 
  • Strong knowledge about multiple testbench architectures
  • Experience constructing chip-level System Verilog and UVM test bench environments, writing System Verilog Assertions 
  (SVAs), with embedded software design and test.
  • Track record of successfully executing block or chip-level verification plans.
  • HW/SW Co-Verification experience is a plus - Developing test benches, test cases/use-cases, APIs, their execution and 
  debug on a FPGA/Emulation platform.
  • Expertise in developing RAL using UVM methodology and able to write all the UVM component like monitor, 
  scoreboard, driver, agent etc from the scratch
  • Proficient working knowledge of AXI-lite/AXI-Stream/APB/AHB
  • Excellent debug skills, with experience debugging RTL in block and/or chip-level environments.
  • Proficient knowledge of VHDL, System Verilog, UVM, C and scripting languages like Python, Perl and Tcl.
  • Proficiency with Cadence design tools/environment and cadence UVC's is plus.
  • Excellent communication skills, energetic and self-motivated.
  • Work effectively with an off-site/off-shore design/DV team