Senior Staff Digital Verification Engineer

Job Title

Senior Staff Digital Verification Engineer

Role Summary

Lead digital verification for complex analog mixed-signal (AMS) SOC products in the Interface and Power Management portfolios. Drive verification strategy, coordinate with design, system and test teams, and deliver first-silicon success for mixed-signal and serial-interface designs.

Experience Level

Senior - typically 7+ years of relevant digital verification or ASIC verification experience.

Responsibilities

Primary duties include:

• Architect block and full-chip digital verification strategies and environments (UVM, constrained random).
• Develop and maintain verification components such as agents, sequencers, monitors, and scoreboards.
• Define verification plans, implement coverage-driven methodologies, and drive coverage closure.
• Debug RTL and gate-level simulations and work with design engineers to verify fixes.
• Convert verification tests into ATE patterns and support vector bring-up with test engineering.
• Collaborate across design, system, and test teams to ensure robust first-silicon outcomes.
• Automate verification and analysis tasks using scripting.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience:

• Proven experience architecting verification environments using HVLs (UVM) and constrained-random techniques for SOCs.
• Experience verifying blocks, clusters, and full-chip ASICs with embedded CPUs and serial/mixed-signal interfaces.
• Ability to build testbench components: scoreboards, agents, sequencers, monitors.
• Strong RTL and gate-level simulation debugging skills and experience working with design engineers to verify fixes.
• Experience converting verification tests to ATE vectors and supporting test engineering on vector bring-up.
• Working knowledge of scripting languages (Perl, Python) to automate verification tasks.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and clear written and verbal communication.

Nice-to-have:

• Domain experience in power-management ICs or serial-interface systems (USB controllers, USB-UART, USB-Ethernet, RS-485/232, PCIe-to-UART).

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering is preferred. The posting also allows equivalent practical experience (typically 7+ years) in lieu of a degree.

About the Company

Company: MaxLinear

Headquarters: Carlsbad, CA, United States

Fabless semiconductor company that designs RF, analog, digital, and mixed-signal system-on-chip solutions for access and connectivity, data center and optical interconnects, wired/wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.