Principal DFT Design Verification Engineer
Location: Santa Clara, CA, United States
Description
Invent the future with us.
Recognized by Fast Company’s 2023 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators List, Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient, sustainable cloud computing.
By providing a new level of predictable performance, efficiency, and sustainability Ampere is working with leading cloud suppliers and a growing partner ecosystem to deliver cloud instances, servers and embedded/edge products that can handle the compute demands of today and tomorrow.
Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team — we’d love to have you apply. Come invent the future with us.
About the role:
The ideal candidate will work with multi-functional global teams to verify IOBIST and JTAG/IJTAG DFT features on our next generation highly complex server processor products. Work in close collaboration with test engineering team to deliver ATE patterns and post silicon bring-up and debug. The ideal candidate will lead verification of high-performance microprocessors. The candidate is able to work with third party IP. You will develop system level and unit level test plans and test benches for verification of high speed IOBIST interfaces for DDR, SERDES hardware. You will write test benches using System Verilog and UVM.
DFT DV work at Ampere is interesting, challenging, and will expand pre-silicon verification to silicon debug. We like to bring out the best in people, teach each other, and produce products that have value in the market.
What you'll achieve:
- Verify high speed IOBIST interfaces for DDR, SERDES test functionality for high performance multi core server class processor.
- Create test plans for unit-level and chip-level verification.
- Design and implement test benches and verification environments.
- Generate test patterns for ATE, debug failures, Yield analysis and evaluate coverage of design. and generate patterns for ATE.
About you:
- Hardware verification experience
- Have experience building agents, scoreboards and transactors from scratch
- Good knowledge of high performance microprocessor architecture
- Understanding of verification methodology
- Electrical or Computer Engineering - Bachelor’s degree & 8 years of related experience; or Master's degree & 6 years; or PhD & 3 years
What we'll offer:
Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life, with full benefits eligibility at 20 hours per week.
Benefit highlights include:
- Premium medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, as well as income protection and a 401K retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health and financial future.
- Unlimited Flextime and 10+ paid holidays so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance.
- A variety of healthy snacks, energizing espresso, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.
And there is much more than compensation and benefits. At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more. We are passionate about inventing industry leading cloud-native designs that contribute to a more sustainable future. We are excited to share more about our career opportunities with you through the interview process.
Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.
