Lead Verification Engineer

Purpose of the Job

The Lead Verification Engineer will lead and drive the verification and validation of complex digital video and high-speed communication systems, from block-level verification through FPGA implementation and complete system integration.

The position requires 14+ years of relevant industry experience and strong hands-on expertise in HDMI, DVI, SDI, SystemVerilog/UVM, directed verification, Gate-level simulation, high-speed digital interfaces, system integration and hardware debugging.

The Lead Verification Engineer is expected to combine strong verification methodology with practical system-debugging skills and take technical ownership of verification strategy, execution, coverage, debugging, and verification closure.

Key Responsibilities

In This Role, You Will

• Lead the verification strategy, architecture, planning and execution based digital products and subsystems.
• Define comprehensive verification plans, test scenarios, verification environments, functional coverage goals and sign-off criteria.
• Develop and maintain reusable SystemVerilog/UVM verification environments, including testbenches, drivers, monitors, scoreboards, sequences, assertions and functional coverage.
• Develop directed and constrained-random tests to verify complex functional scenarios and corner cases.
• Lead verification of professional digital-video interfaces and video-processing systems, particularly HDMI, DVI, SDI etc
• Verify video-related functions across resolutions, frame rates, colour formats, bit depths, timing conditions and abnormal/error scenarios.
• Perform verification of complex designs, including custom RTL, IP, clocking, reset, memory and high-speed interface subsystems.
• Develop and execute gate-level simulations (GLS) and investigate failures involving timing, initialisation, reset, X-propagation and implementation effects.
• Perform system-level integration, verification and debugging, hardware, firmware, embedded software and host software.

Profile

Education and Experience

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, VLSI, Embedded Systems, or a related discipline.
• 14+ years of hands-on industry experience in verification, digital design verification and system-level verification.
• Demonstrated experience taking technical ownership of complex verification activities.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with professional video-processing, broadcast, entertainment or high-performance visualisation systems.
• Experience in real-time video and image processing.
• Strong knowledge of CDC/RDC verification.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Tcl, Shell or similar languages.
• Experience with continuous integration and automated regression environments.
• Knowledge of timing constraints and static timing analysis.
• Experience debugging interactions between RTL, embedded processors and external high-speed devices.
• Experience correlating simulation failures with hardware observations.
• Familiarity with board-level high-speed digital design concepts and signal integrity is advantageous.