Principal Engineer, Design Verification in Edinburgh

Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, and software technologies into solutions that help drive advancements in digitized factories, mobility, and digital healthcare, combat climate change, and reliably connect humans and the world.

The charter of ADI’s CSS team is to lead the market in selected technology domains with highly differentiated sensing and signal processing solutions. Today these technology areas include Capacitive Sensing, Optical Image Stabilization, Power management and Audio that drive growth in our portable and non‑portable consumer business. We are now seeking to fill key roles in defining, developing and implementing verification solutions for mixed signal ICs in this key market area. This would span the entire development cycle from concept phase, through verification planning, implementation, execution and release of products to customers. The Design Verification Engineer will collaborate with the wider ADI technical community, affording an opportunity to work with many business units and products.

Responsibilities

• Verification of complex designs and sub‑systems using leading edge verification methodologies.
• Contribute to and influence the decisions on methodologies/strategies to be adopted for design verification.
• Develop testbench architectures and develop using UVM or Formal based verification approaches.
• Define verification plans, functional coverage, tests and verification methodology for block/chip‑level verification.
• Work with the design team in generating verification plans and closure metrics.
• Debug Gate Level Simulation (GLS), waive timing violations approved by designer.
• Continuous interaction with analog co‑sim and firmware team.
• Technically mentor and guide junior verification engineers on SoC Verification.
• Support post‑silicon verification activities of the products working with design, product evaluation and applications engineering team.
• Lead verification efforts at IP or SoC level, effort estimation, project scheduling and tracking, task assignment, reporting to management or customer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering (Electronic Engineering) or equivalent.
• Building and leading small verification teams.
• Strong interpersonal, teamwork and communication skills are essential.
• Be self‑motivated and enthusiastic.
• Strong level of English speaking and writing.
• Customer facing experience as verification lead.
• Experience in both IP and SoC level verification.
• Strong demonstrable knowledge of verification‑plan generation, coverage analysis, constrained random techniques, assertion based and formal verification techniques with SystemVerilog.
• Demonstrated experience in verification techniques for one or more of the following DSP/Processor subsystems/Formal verification.
• Expert in developing unit and SoC level test benches using UVM.
• Integrate the block testbench in chip‑level UVM environment and verify integration.
• Excellent debugging and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in scripting languages and utilities including Makefile, Python, TCL/tsh, Perl etc.
• 10–15 years in ASIC design verification.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with HW emulation or FPGA prototyping.
• Low power methodologies, e.g. UPF.
• Experience in behavioural modelling of analogue circuits.
• Experience in verifying processor based designs.
• Knowledge of interface protocols e.g. AHB/APB/AXI/I2C/SPMI.

For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce – Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State – Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. As such, applicants for this position – except U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.

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Position Details

• Job Req Type: Experienced
• Required Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
• Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days
• Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment Type: Full‑time
• Job Function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Location: United Kingdom (Newbury, Edinburgh) or Valencia, Spain