Principal Verification Engineer

Job Title

Principal Verification Engineer

Role Summary

Member of the MCU/MPU Engineering Digital IP team responsible for pre-silicon verification of IP modules and subsystems used across automotive, IoT, networking and RF products. The role focuses on verification planning, building UVM-based verification environments, and collaborating with hardware, firmware, software and system architecture teams.

Experience Level

Senior — requires 10+ years of experience in IP/subsystem verification.

Responsibilities

Accountable for verification delivery and technical ownership of IP or IP subsystems.

• Define and write IP verification plans from requirements and architecture documents.
• Architect, develop, debug and maintain UVM-based verification environments for RTL simulation.
• Create testcases: stimulus, assertions; run simulations and regressions across RTL, power-aware RTL, gate-level, FPGA and emulation platforms.
• Collect and analyze functional and code coverage; drive metric-driven verification.
• Collaborate with HW, FW, SW and system engineering teams to resolve functional issues and validate integration.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience:

• Proven experience in testbench design and development using UVM for IP/subsystem and SoC verification.
• Advanced knowledge of Verilog and SystemVerilog; experience with C/C++ and shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of functional and code coverage and metric-driven verification.
• Experienced with directed and constrained-random verification methodologies and assertions.
• Experience debugging designs pre- and post-silicon using simulation and lab platforms.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Nice-to-have: familiarity with formal verification methods and scripting in Perl, TCL or Python.

Education Requirements

Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.

About the Company

Company: NXP Semiconductors

Headquarters: Nijmegen, Netherlands

NXP Semiconductors N.V. is a global semiconductor company that provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions. With over 45,000 employees and operations in more than 35 countries, NXP is a leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, catering to automotive, industrial IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets. The company is committed to innovation and sustainability, advancing a smarter, safer, and more sustainable world through technology.