Senior System Level Verification Engineer

Job Title

Senior System Level Verification Engineer

Role Summary

Join the verification team responsible for system-level verification, chip bring-up, and validation of complex ARM-based SoCs. The role focuses on developing system-level test environments, creating and running test plans across simulation, emulation, FPGA, and post-silicon platforms, and collaborating with hardware and software teams to debug and resolve issues.

Experience Level

Senior - requires significant experience (posting specifies ~7 years DV/validation and ~5 years system-level verification using C).

Responsibilities

Primary system-level verification and validation responsibilities:

• Design and implement SOC system-level test environments for simulation and emulation, including logging, backdoor configuration, and device models.
• Create test plans and tests (including error-condition and stress tests) and automate regressions.
• Execute and debug tests in simulation, emulation, FPGA, and post-silicon environments.
• Work cross-functionally to root-cause hardware issues and produce system-level test cases to reproduce and validate fixes.
• Validate ROM and assist with ROM bring-up and verification activities.
• Collaborate with software teams to debug device drivers and OS boot issues.
• Contribute to firmware and bootflow validation, including reset handling, recovery, and firmware update scenarios.

Requirements

Must-have skills and experience followed by preferred skills.

• Must-have: ~7 years DV/validation experience and ~5 years system-level verification experience using C.
• Proven experience through a complete SOC/ASIC project cycle.
• Strong understanding of CPU debug architecture and SOC system architecture.
• Proficient programming and modeling of SOC-connected devices (JTAG, UART, SPI, I2C).
• Testplanning and test-case development in C, including self-checking tests; experience running regressions.
• RTL debugging using waveform viewers.
• Mastery of C and fluency with scripting/tools: Make, Python, Perl, shell scripting.
• Experience with documentation and issue tracking tools such as Confluence and Jira.

• Nice-to-have / Preferred: experience with emulation, FPGA, and post-silicon validation.
• Experience validating complex IP interfaces (USB, Ethernet, PCIe, DDR).
• Familiarity using AI tools to aid test planning, generation, and debugging.
• Experience with SPDM, PLDM, MCTP protocols; Caliptra or crypto/security APIs.
• Experience with bootloaders, platform firmware (initialization, boot flows, reset handling, recovery, firmware-update mechanisms) and firmware authentication/OTP provisioning.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Axiado

Headquarters: San Jose, CA, United States

Axiado is an AI-enhanced security processor company founded in 2017 that develops platform security management and ransomware-detection technologies for cloud datacenters and 5G infrastructure. The firm focuses on system control, management, and secure hardware/software integration to protect critical computing platforms.