IP Verification Director
SiemensJob Title
IP Verification Director
Role Summary
Lead the development and delivery of verification IP (VIP) and verification methodologies for high-speed interfaces and coherency protocols used with Questa RTL simulation. The role manages technical direction, cross-functional collaboration, and customer-facing support for IP verification products.
Experience Level
Senior — requires extensive experience; the posting specifies 18+ years of relevant industry experience.
Responsibilities
Primary responsibilities include technical leadership, product delivery, and customer engagement.
- Lead design, development, and verification of VIP for interfaces such as PCIe Gen5/Gen6, USB3.2, 400Gb Ethernet, DDR5, LPDDR5 and coherency protocols like CXL.
- Define verification strategy, test plans, coverage goals, assertions, and BFM architectures.
- Oversee RTL design verification and emulation activities; guide debug, logging, and tracker mechanisms.
- Collaborate with customers and field engineers (PEs/AEs) to resolve issues, deploy solutions, and collect requirements.
- Coordinate with system architects to validate latency, bandwidth, and system-level performance trade-offs.
- Mentor and lead engineering teams; drive technical decisions and industry-aligned best practices.
Requirements
Must-have skills and experience; nice-to-have items are listed separately.
- Must-have: 18+ years of experience in RTL design, IP/VIP development, verification, or emulation with demonstrated technical leadership.
- Must-have: Strong SystemVerilog and UVM experience; experience with assertions, coverage-driven verification, test plans, BFMs, debug tooling, loggers, and trackers.
- Must-have: Familiarity with register layering and common bus/protocol behaviors (PCIe, USB, Ethernet, Memory, CHI).
- Nice-to-have: Experience developing C/SystemC-based tests or system-level testbenches.
- Nice-to-have: Knowledge of coherent and non-coherent NoC operation, and experience with CPU/GPU/display/network/device/memory subsystem interactions.
- Proven ability to work directly with customers and field engineers to diagnose and resolve complex verification or integration issues.
Education Requirements
B.Tech or M.Tech in Electronics or a related field from a reputed institute. (Education specified in source.)
About the Company
Company: Siemens
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Siemens EDA is a leading global provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) products and systems. Their innovative solutions enable companies to enhance the development of electronic products efficiently and effectively, keeping pace with the complex demands of technology and physics. Siemens is committed to delivering advanced workflow solutions that integrate both EDA and MCAD tools for multi-domain design and manufacturing in the semiconductor industry.
