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FPGA / ASIC VERIFICATION ENGINEER II

RESPONSIBILITIES:

We are looking to hire a Verification Engineer with hands-on test experience, excellent communication skills and leadership skills. As a Verification Engineer you’ll help define write the test harness to verify complex ASICs and FPGAs. You will design and implement test benches, come up with a test plan, write test cases, run test regressions to help verify designs. You may get involved in bring-up and system validation of these ASICs and FPGAs.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in computer engineering or electrical engineering.
• 3+ years of experience verifying complex ASICs / FPGAs.
• 3+ years of experience in ASIC / FPGA verification using C/C++ and/or System Verilog.
• 1+ years of experience with verification methodology like OVM / UVM / VMM.
• 1+ years of experience with building and setting up scalable simulation / verification environments.
• 1+ years of experience with scripting (bash/csh, Perl, TCL, Python, etc.).

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Constrained Random Verification Experience, highly desired.
• Any FPGA/ASIC design experience is a definite plus.
• Experience with high reliability design and implementations.
• Experience with any packet based protocols (PCI Express etc.), Network centric designs (Ethernet, IP, FC).
• Familiarity with testing complex designs, code coverage, functional coverage, assertions.
• Ability to focus on finding design issues, corner cases and out of box ideas to make designs more robust.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a dynamic environment that includes working with changing needs and requirements.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about ITAR here.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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