SoC Verification Engineer

Syntiant | Irvine | Full-time | apply.workable.com |
About Syntiant

Backed by some of the world’s leading tech companies, including Amazon, Applied Materials, Bosch, Intel Capital, and Microsoft and Motorola, Syntiant’s ultra-low-power, high-performance, deep neural network processors are making AI at the edge possible.

Founded in 2017 and led by a veteran management team of accomplished tech executives, scientists, hardware and software engineers with deep ties to the semiconductor industry, Syntiant’s architecture was built from the ground up to run deep learning algorithms.

As the industry’s lowest-power processors for always-on voice and sensor applications, Syniant’s chips can be easily designed into battery-powered devices, including earbuds, headsets, mobile phones, remote controls, laptops and other voice-activated products.

Member of Technical Staff (Hardware Design Verification)

The Syntiant Hardware Engineering Team is seeking motivated and proactive engineers who can work with cross-disciplinary teams (Design, Firmware, Product Engineering).

In this role, you will develop scalable and re-usable verification environments and test cases to verify Syntiant’s next generation Neural Decision Processor chip. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on self-starter who can execute the steps required to fully verify complex digital designs at block level, subsystem level & full chip level.

Responsibilities
 •  Responsible for verifying design blocks, subsystem & full chip.
 •  Write and review test plans, develop test harnesses and test sequences
 •  Responsible for test plan execution, running regressions, code and functional coverage closure
 •  Contribute towards pre-silicon verification, chip bring-up and post-silicon validation
 •  Be a hands-on self-starter who can execute the steps required to fully verify complex digital designs & full chip

Requirements

Preferred Skills & Experience
 •  Advanced degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering
 •  5+ years of experience with design verification and test bench development using SystemVeilog/Systemc
 •  Expertise in developing test plans, implementing coverage models, and analyzing results
 •  Experience with SOC/Subsystem level verification of ARM-based SOCs
 •  Experience with scripting languages, e.g. Python
 •  Experience with gate level simulations
 •  Experience with chip bring-up & post silicon validation
 •  Knowledgeable of ARM architecture and AMBA bus standards like AXI-4, AHB-5 & APB
 •  Knowledgeable of power aware simulation methodology
 •  Knowledgeable of SPI, xSPI, I3C, MIPI protocols
 •  Ability to work in a dynamic environment with changing needs and requirements

Benefits

Syntiant Corp offers the following comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees:
 •  Medical Broad range of medical plans through national and regional insurance carriers including high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), PPOs and HMOs. Medical plan options vary by state.
 •  Dental Selection of dental carriers - Delta Dental, Aetna, Guardian Dental, and MetLife and a high and a low national dental PPO plan. Aetna also will make available an EPP plan in many states.
 •  Vision High and a low vision plan through two different carriers: Aetna and Vision Service Plan (VSP).
 •  Health Savings Account (HSA)
 •  Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
 •  Basic Life Insurance & AD&D
 •  Supplemental Life Insurance
 •  Supplemental Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
 •  Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits
 •  Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
 •  Retirement Plan
 •  Voluntary Insurance Plans, including:
 •  Group Legal Services Plan
 •  Auto, Home, and Renters Insurance
 •  Pet Insurance
 •  Accident insurance
 •  Hospital indemnity insurance
 •  Critical illness insurance
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