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System IP Design Verification Engineer

San Jose, CA 95134

Posted: 07/03/2025 Employment Type: Contract Department: VMS Job Number: 30665 Industry: SOFT - Software Companies

Job Description

Job Title: System IP Design Verification Engineer

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract System IP Design Verification Engineer opportunity for our client located in San Jose, CA.

Job Description:
  • As a Senior Staff System IP Design Verification Contractor, you will contribute to the functional verification of System IP, including coherent interconnect and caches.
  • This is a technical individual contributor role with heavily involved hands-on project execution.
  • A strong background in Design Verification and hands-on experience with both block-level and top-level design is required to be successful in this role.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Architecting and building re-usable testbenches right from scratch
  • Proposing and driving best practices/methodologies/automation that can improve productivity
  • Owning key features and timely execution of tasks as per milestones
  • Experience with GLS [gate level simulation]
  • Creating test plans as per the spec and presenting to various stakeholders
  • Working with designers to resolve any spec issues
  • Creating test benches, verification environments, stimulus, tests
  • Collaborating with designers to verify the correctness of a design feature and resolve failures
  • Developing assertions, checkers, covergroups, and SystemVerilog constraints
  • Debugging and root-cause causing of functional failures from regressions
  • Analyzing code and functional coverage results, performing gap analysis
  • Working with the SoC team to debug functional failures during IP bringup and feature execution
  • Collaborating with Physical design teams, running and debugging gate-level simulations
  • Collaborating with Performance verification teams to help with co-sim TB bringup
  • Bring up power-aware verification with UPF
  • Helping with Silicon bringup and root-cause analysis.

Job Qualifications:
  • Phd/MS/BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering
  • 12+ years of industry experience in a design verification role
  • Expert hands-on coding skills in Testbench, Stimulus, checker development, and coverage closure.
  • Experience with System Verilog, UVM, or equivalent
  • Knowledge of ARM protocols or equivalent protocols – CHI, AXI, ACElite, APB
  • Experience with Git version control, Unix/Perl/Python scripting
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience with GLS, power vector generation
  • Formal verification skills will be a plus
  • Combined experience with coherent interconnect, caches, and LPDDR memory controllers will be a plus.

Job Details:
  • Job Type: Contract
  • Pay Rate: $90-$120 an hour
  • Location: Austin, TX or San Jose, CA (Onsite).

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.

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