Here's how you will make a difference
As a SoC Verification Engineer, you will play a key role in pre-silicon RTL verification of block and top-level SoC designs utilizing RISC-V architecture. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will help shape a modern, reusable verification environment using state-of-the-art methodologies and metric-driven approaches.
Your key responsibilities:
* Understand the nuances of RISC-V architectures and industry-standard low-power architectures to build block/chip level testbenches using best-in-class verification methodologies
* Translate design specifications into comprehensive verification plans in collaboration with system architects
* Develop and maintain reusable testbenches for IP/block-level verification and support IP integration verification
* Create smart, constraint-random and directed test cases tailored to RISC-V SoCs
* Build and analyze coverage models, and refine tests to close coverage gaps
* Debug test failures, manage bug tracking, and ensure coverage closure
* Lead verification reviews to uphold coding quality and best practices in SoC verification
* Prepare, run, and evaluate regression runs
What you bring to the table
* University degree in (electrical) engineering, IT/computer science or another related field
* Solid understanding of digital logic design and RISC-V-based SoC architecture
* Proven experience with SystemVerilog and UVM-based verification environments
* Very good English and good German language skills
* Proactive and independent mindset
Nice to have:
* Familiarity with C / C++ programming, assembly and object-oriented languages such as Python
* Knowledge of industry-standard interfaces and bus protocols (e.g., AXI)
* Experience with IP verification methods, integration verification specific to RISC-V and embedded CPU verification
* Interest in low power verification techniques and formal verification tools (e.g. JasperGold)
What you can expect
Fraunhofer is not only the largest organization for applied research in Europe, but also a top-rated employer. How so?
* Our institute culture: We want our colleagues to feel comfortable. Therefore, we constantly strive to ensure a friendly and supportive working atmosphere within our international team.
* Exciting activities: With customers and partners across the globe, we provide an attractive working environment in a highly innovative key industry with exciting ventures and new experiences.
* Room for creativity: We want to give our colleagues a generous amount of creative freedom so that they can contribute and develop their own ideas.
* Personal development: With top-of-the-range company equipment and regular training, we aim to provide the best possible working conditions and development opportunities for our colleagues.
* Flexible working hours: Due to our wide range of offers, we make it easy for our colleagues to find a comfortable balance between their private and professional lives.
* Equal opportunity: Our female scientists, for example, can benefit from the career program »Fraunhofer TALENTA«.
The position is initially limited to 2 years with the aim to extend it subsequently. The weekly working time is 39 hours. The position can also be filled on a part-time basis with a preference, however, to have it filled as close to a full-time position as possible.
We value and promote the diversity of our employees' skills and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of age, gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, sexual orientation and identity. Appointment, remuneration and social security benefits based on the public-sector collective wage agreement (TVöD).