Verification Engineer
Employment Type: Permanent, full-time
Location: Bristol
Date: October 2017
Job Description
We are looking for a technically exceptional, flexible and enthusiastic Verification Engineer to join our growing world class team.
About the role:
Blu Wireless Technology (BWT) develops cutting-edge wireless Gbps technology, based on the 802.11ad mmWave standard. With the initial core technology developed and demonstrated, we are now moving forward to take this through into production with our growing customer base.
The verification of complex silicon systems is an increasingly sophisticated and dynamic discipline, combining aspects of advanced software engineering methodology and specialist Hardware Verification Languages with full understanding of complex hardware behaviour and design trade-offs.
BWT uses the most powerful verification techniques including constrained random verification, assertion based verification (AVB) and functional coverage, and we are looking for a talented individual to help drive this forward.
What will I be accountable for?
· Take responsibility in the verification of subsystems (vector or scalar processing units, MAC, Modem, top level SoC).
o Build verification plans.
o Design the subsystem testbench (scripts, verification IP, etc.) following the features requirements.
o Write test scenarios according to the plan.
o Execute the verification, issue tickets and participate in the debug.
o Report and analyse metrics (functional and code coverage).
· Participate in the review of the specifications.
· Participate in the definition of the validation and verification strategies.
Job Requirements
Knowledge & Experience:
· Masters or PhD degree or proof of experience to that level in the field.
· Ability to work in a highly motivated commercially driven environment.
Skills:
The following skills are desirable and applicants should have experience some of these techniques:
· Advanced functional verification of complex digital chips and System IP.
· Coding in SystemVerilog, C++ and/or System-C.
· AVB techniques and languages.
· Constrained random simulation and coverage measurements and metrics.
· Verification of CPU based system using tests written in C and assembly code.
· Verifying a number of the following technologies: processors, cache memory sub-systems, system interconnects, complex SoC, DMA controllers, high speed serial interfaces, multi-voltage and multi-clock domain circuits.
· The application of FPGA prototyping technologies to verification in addition to writing laboratory/bench test routines.
· Experience in Matlab and C/C++ will be an advantage.
More About Us
We are a friendly and welcoming team located in the heart of Bristol, offering a competitive salary and equity scheme, in addition to lifestyle benefits.
We are rapidly becoming a leading supplier of multi-gigabit baseband System IP to the emerging multi-billion dollar 4G backhaul and gigabit WiFi market.
Exploiting Bristol’s long heritage in parallel computing and consumer electronics technology, we have developed our powerful HYDRA baseband architecture that provides significant cost, power and performance advantages over competing solutions. This highly optimal, but flexible, architecture provides our customers with access to dynamic DSP algorithms for SC-FDE, OFDM and beam tracking so achieving world class performance in mmWave data communication.
We endeavour to respond quickly to all applications so if interested please submit your CV with a short covering note to . Please make it clear if you require any Visa to work in the UK.