Technical Staff Engineer - Verification in Newtown

Join Microchip Technology Inc. as part of the MCU Product Development team focused on post-silicon validation and verification activities across architecture, applications, and design teams. This role emphasizes developing verification plans, test benches, and automated verification processes to support SoC and module level validation and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Work with post-silicon validation, architecture, applications, and design teams to understand module and system requirements and develop comprehensive verification plans.
• Define and develop testbench architecture, test environment and effective suite of tests using a mix of System Verilog, C++ and PERL to achieve functional verification goals.
• Develop effective functional assertions and cover elements; verify structural and functional coverage of module and system level test suites.
• Develop scripts to automate verification processes.
• Provide guidance and support to the verification development activities of team members.
• Provide feedback and review of verification activities across the MCU division.
• Define and develop verification process improvements and methodologies as part of continuous improvement.
• Support debugging of post-silicon issues with validation, applications, design, product and test.

Qualifications

• 12.5+ years of industry experience.
• Relevant degree qualified.
• Good understanding of Microcontroller architecture and products.
• Expertise in Verilog, System Verilog, C++, PERL/TCL and associated Mentor, Visualizer/Verdi tools and workflows.
• Expertise in digital design fundamentals and ability to debug complex designs at RTL and gate level; expertise in module level verification and system level verification.
• Expertise in writing reusable System Verilog verification code and testbench architecture.
• Very good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts.
• Working experience in UVM verification methodology.
• Able to write tests in C to verify SoC functionality.
• Able to define verification process documentation, flows and review verification methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as hands-on SoC debugging / bring-up skills.
• Able to set team goals and work consistently towards achieving them.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.

Microchip's MCU Business Unit is a premier supplier of Microcontrollers that empower our customers' designs in diverse applications, ranging from general-purpose embedded control to secured Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and beyond. Our broad and scalable portfolio of devices include powerful, state of the art features and options to create innovative products. Our silicon supports a rich ecosystem of embedded software development.

The MCU Product Development team is engaged through the full SOC R&D cycle, including microarchitecture, design, verification, emulation and implementation. We are an experienced, global SOC development team working with state-of-the-art semiconductor development tools and methodologies in advanced process technologies.