Senior Engineer, Design Verification (MCU)
Renesas · Posted Oct 14
Semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries
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About the role
Renesas is a global semiconductor company serving automotive, industrial, cloud, and IoT markets. Its India division focuses on building SoCs, software, power, and analog products for local-market needs. This role owns end-to-end verification of complex digital IP and subsystems, including UVM environment development, coverage closure, and MCU SoC integration.
What you will do
- Be a part of end‑to‑end verification execution for SOC owning complex digital IP’s and subsystems from specification to sign‑off
- Define and drive IP‑level verification strategies, including test plans, coverage models, and closure criteria
- Develop scalable, reusable UVM‑based verification environments for IP and subsystem verification
- Lead functional, code, assertion, and cross‑coverage closure, ensuring high‑quality sign‑off with clear metrics
- Apply AI/ML‑assisted verification techniques to accelerate coverage convergence, identify stimulus gaps, and optimize regression efficiency
- Drive constraint random and directed test methodologies for thorough protocol, corner‑case, and stress verification
- Collaborate with RTL, Architecture, Emulation, and SoC Verification teams to ensure seamless IP integration
- Review IP specifications and work with architects to translate requirements into robust verification plans and checkers
- Develop and deploy advanced checkers, scoreboards, assertions (SVA), and protocol monitors
- Work with EDA vendors to evaluate and adopt next‑generation verification, coverage, and analytics tools
- Mentor junior engineers and promote best‑in‑class verification practices and continuous improvement
- Support Gate‑Level Simulation (GLS), low‑power verification, and post‑silicon debug when required.
- Ensure IP deliverables meet quality, schedule, and reusability expectations for SoC integration.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering.
- 2 - 4 years of experience in SoC Verification domains and working knowledge of industry-standard EDA toolkits.
- Strong expertise in UVM-based testbench architecture and development.
- Proven experience in metric-driven verification, including functional and code coverage closure.
- Deep understanding of SystemVerilog, UVM, assertions (SVA), and verification best practices.
- Experience with directed and constrained-random verification methodologies.
- Experience debugging complex design issues in simulation, emulation, and post-silicon environments.
- Proficiency in Verilog/SystemVerilog, with working knowledge of C/C++, and Shell scripting.
- Experience in verification of MCU-based SoCs and subsystems, including CPU cores, AHB/APB/AXI bus protocols, interrupt controllers, GPIO, timers, UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, low-power features, and embedded peripherals.
- Strong understanding of MCU architectures such as ARM Cortex-M, RISC-V, or equivalent embedded processor architectures.
- Knowledge of firmware-driven verification techniques and embedded software interaction with MCU peripherals is desirable.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Hands-on experience using AI/ML-based verification tools for: Coverage gap analysis Test stimulus optimization Regression triage and coverage acceleration
- Scripting expertise in Python, Perl, or TCL for automation and analytics.
- Exposure to formal verification and hybrid formal-simulation flows.
- Familiarity with high-speed or complex IPs, such as: H.264 Security, debug, or safety-critical IPs
- Experience with MCU functional safety concepts (ISO 26262), low-power verification, secure boot, and embedded system validation is a plus.
- Experience with firmware development/debugging in Embedded C or RTOS-based environments is desirable.
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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