Senior Digital Verification Design Engineer

The Sony Europe Technology Development Centre (EUTDC) is an R&D Integrated Circuit Design Centre with a mission to develop next-generation imaging and sensing solid-state devices. We are seeking a skilled and expert Senior Digital Design Verification Engineer to join our Digital Design team, playing a pivotal role in the Digital Design Verification of top-level and IPs, coordinating the efforts of other verification contributors, and shaping the verification methodology.

This role involves tight communication with the design team and coordination of the design verification activities, potentially with external engineers and contractors, and collaboration with other European and Japanese design centres for alignment on methodology improvements.

You will:

• Lead Digital Design Verification projects, including planning and organizing work for contributors, and reporting the progress to managers.
• Develop and consolidate new design verification flows, aiming to enhance methodology and efficiency across sites.
• Analyse design specifications to create comprehensive verification plans for complex blocks.
• Maintain a digital regression environment and analyse code and functional coverage.
• Debug tests autonomously and communicate proficiently with designers as needed.
• Write, integrate, and debug analogue models, supporting AMS verification teams.
• Contribute to verification methodologies for imaging systems and system model integration (e.g., SystemC).
• Apply Continuous Integration concepts and workflows (e.g., Jenkins).

You have:

• A background in technical, electronics, semiconductor, or physics, with a PhD/MSc in Engineering or Physics or equivalent experience.
• Solid experience in the design and verification domain, preferably with CMOS Image Sensors.
• Excellent expertise in UVM/digital verification methodology.
• Proficient in common scripting languages (Python, Perl, Tcl/shell, Makefile, etc.).
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Experience working with multi-ethnic, cross-functional, and remote teams.
• Fluent English.

Your new office is located in Trento, surrounded by the Dolomite Alps, within a scientific ecosystem where universities, research institutes, companies, and organisations collaborate for the development and design of next-generation imaging and sensing solid-state devices. Our office offers outstanding views, a break room with free hot drinks, and a canteen.

Life at Sony includes competitive salaries and benefits, a healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies, and a positive community that respects each other and enjoys a collaborative culture. We celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference and provide access to numerous services for wellbeing.

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and impact our creation of social value.

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email or mail to the Human Resources Department.