Principal Engineer, Design Verification

About Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a worldwide leader in semiconductors, integrating analog, digital, and software technologies to create breakthrough solutions at the Intelligent Edge. ADI's innovations contribute to advancements in factories, mobility, healthcare, environmental challenges, and global connectivity. With over $9 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2024 and a global workforce of approximately 24,000 staff members, the company continuously drives innovation.

Role Overview

The Customer Signal Sensing (CSS) team at ADI focuses on leading technology domains such as Capacitive Sensing, Optical Image Stabilization, Power Management, and Audio, fueling growth in consumer markets. We are seeking a Principal Engineer for Design Verification to develop and implement verification methodologies for mixed-signal integrated circuits. This role encompasses the entire development lifecycle—from conceptualization, verification planning, implementation, execution, through final product release.

Key Responsibilities

• Verify complex designs and subsystem blocks utilizing advanced verification methodologies.
• Influence and contribute to verification strategies and methodologies selection.
• Develop testbench architectures using UVM and formal verification techniques.
• Define verification plans, functional coverage, test cases, and methodologies at both block and chip levels.
• Collaborate closely with design teams on verification plans and closure metrics.
• Debug gate-level simulation results and manage timing violation waivers with designers.
• Maintain ongoing collaboration with analog co-simulation and firmware teams.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior verification engineers in SoC verification tasks.
• Support post-silicon verification efforts in coordination with design, product evaluation, and applications teams.
• Lead verification projects at IP or SoC level including effort estimation, project scheduling, task assignment, and reporting.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering or an equivalent field.
• Experience building and leading small verification teams; excellent interpersonal, teamwork, and communication skills required.
• Proven customer-facing experience as a verification lead.
• Extensive knowledge in IP and SoC level verification.
• Expertise in generating verification plans, coverage analysis, constrained random stimulus, assertion-based verification, and formal verification techniques using SystemVerilog.
• Proven skills in verification methods for DSP, processor subsystems, or formal verification.
• Expert in developing unit and SoC-level UVM testbenches and integration.
• Strong analytical and debugging abilities.
• Proficiency in scripting languages and build utilities including Makefile, Python, TCL/Tclsh, Perl.
• 10 to 15 years of experience in ASIC design verification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with hardware emulation or FPGA prototyping platforms.
• Knowledge of low power verification methodologies such as UPF.
• Experience with behavioral modeling of analog circuits.
• Familiarity with verifying processor-based designs.
• Understanding of interface protocols including AHB, APB, AXI, I2C, and SPMI.

Additional Information

This position is based in the United Kingdom (Newbury, Edinburgh) or Valencia, Spain. Access to technical data may require export licensing approval from U.S. government agencies for candidates except U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or protected individuals. Travel is expected up to 10% of the time. The role follows a daytime (1st) shift schedule.

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