Principal Engineer - Design Verification
Renesas · Posted Oct 19
Semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries
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About the role
Renesas is a global semiconductor company developing MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT markets. The Design Verification team verifies advanced microcontroller and microprocessor designs using UVM, SystemVerilog, formal and metric-driven verification methodologies. This Principal Engineer role drives SoC/MCU verification execution, test planning, coverage closure, gate-level simulation, EDA tool adoption, and cross-team collaboration with RTL, DFT, IP, emulation, and validation teams.
What you will do
- Drive Verification R&D team driving technical execution and best in class methodologies used in the design of advanced microcontrollers and microprocessors.
- Work closely with system architects to understand high level specifications to be able to verify them.
- Work with various EDA vendors to deploy next generation tools
- Build strong collaboration with other R&D teams such as RTL, DFT, digital IP, PD, Design Enablement, Emulation, and Validation to achieve project milestones
- Promote continuous improvement to design techniques to ensure ‘Zero Defect’ chips
- Collaborate with SME’s and key leaders in architecture, systems, emulation, SoC design, software, physical design, and IP teams developing key technical networks to influence overall design improvements and verification methodologies
- Responsible for developing detailed Technical SoC verification execution plans, progress reports and tracking milestones, managing technical risks, and providing mitigations to meet schedule quality and costs commitments.
- Communicate across technical teas as well as provide executive level presentations
- Complete ownership for SoC verification quality sign-offs ensuring all deliverables for team hand-offs.
- Drive best in class verification methodologies collaborating with global internal and external SME’s and developing adoption and compliance processes. Including, driving key innovation strategies which significantly impact efficiency and quality for overall R&D and ROI
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electronics engineering.
- 14+ years of experience in SoC Verification domains and have working knowledge of industry standard EDA toolkits.
- Experience in Microcontroller and Microprocessor architecture & Interconnect
- Experience in protocols like AHB/AXI, Memory (ROM, RAM, Flash, MRAM) and memory controllers.
- Advanced knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog, C/C++, Shell.
- Good knowledge in scripting like Perl, TCL or Python is a plus
- Proven experience in testbench design and development using UVM methodology for IP/Subsystem and SOC.
- High proficiency in Metric Driven Verification concepts, functional and code coverage.
- Expertise in directed and constrained random methodologies.
- Good knowledge of formal verification methodologies and assertions.
- Experience with debugging of designs pre- and post-silicon, in simulation and on the bench.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skill.
- Must have worked on complex, multi-core SoC’s with extensive interconnects and a large range of peripherals.
- Fair domain knowledge of clocking, system modes, power management, debug, security and other architectures is a must.
Preferred qualifications
- Exposure to formal verification and hybrid formal‑simulation flows
- Experience with low‑power verification
- Familiarity with Medium‑speed or communication IPs, such as: CANXL, CANFD, LINFLEX, UART, FLEXRAY
- Interconnect fabrics
- Security, debug, or safety‑critical IPs
- Experience delivering reusable, production‑quality VIPs used across multiple SoCs
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Renesas
Renesas Electronics Corporation is a global semiconductor manufacturer that designs and supplies advanced embedded processors, microcontrollers, analog, power, and connectivity solutions. Serving the automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT sectors, the company delivers integrated technology to support smarter and more sustainable applications worldwide.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 21629 employees
- Founded
- 2002-11-01
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO
Shuhei Shinkai
CFO
Vivek Bhan
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Head of Engineering
Stephen Limoges
Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer
Utae Nakanishi
CHRO
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