ASIC RTL Design Verification Manager

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SENIOR MANAGER SILICON DESIGN ENGINEER  

Position Overview

Sr Manager of ASIC RTL Design Verification is to lead the pre-silicon functional verification organization.

He will own the RTL verification strategy, methodology, execution, and sign-off at SoC levels. The role requires deep technical expertise in c/c++/ASM SystemVerilog/UVM-based verification, strong understanding of digital RTL and SoC architectures, and demonstrated experience building and leading high-performing verification teams.

He will work closely with RTL design, architecture, and program management teams to deliver high-quality, functionally correct RTL and achieve predictable tape-out schedules.

Key Responsibilities

RTL Verification Leadership

• Own end-to-end RTL functional verification for ASIC/SoC programs from specification through RTL sign-off.
• Define verification strategy, architecture, methodology, execution plans, and sign-off criteria.
• Drive verification planning and execution at full-chip SoC levels.
• Establish clear verification milestones aligned with RTL development and tape-out schedules.
• Drive verification quality, predictability, efficiency, and reuse across semiconductor programs.

Verification Methodology & Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership for C/C++/ASM/SystemVerilog/UVM-based constrained-random verification.
• Guide development of scalable and reusable testbench architectures, verification components, sequences, scoreboards, checkers, reference models, and coverage models.
• Drive coverage-based verification methodology using functional coverage, code coverage, assertions, and verification-plan closure.
• Establish methodologies for IP-to-subsystem-to-SoC verification reuse.

Verification Execution & Sign-Off

• Own verification execution across multiple ASIC programs and development milestones.
• Establish measurable RTL verification sign-off criteria.
• Drive closure of verification plans, functional coverage, code coverage, assertion coverage, and regressions. Appropriately drive verification matrix.

Organization & People Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing ASIC RTL verification organization.
• Recruit and retain verification engineers, technical leads, verification architects, and engineering managers.
• Establish clear technical ownership and accountability across IP, subsystem, and SoC verification.
• Mentor senior engineers and develop future technical and management leaders.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner closely with:

• DV teams across GEO
• SoC/System Architecture
• Microarchitecture
• RTL Design
• IP Design and Verification teams
• CAD/EDA Infrastructure
• Program Management
• Firmware/Software teams where required for RTL verification

Drive alignment on specifications, verification requirements, dependencies, schedules, quality metrics, and RTL sign-off criteria.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• 17+ years of ASIC/SoC RTL verification experience, with significant technical and people leadership responsibility.
• Proven track record leading verification of complex semiconductor products through RTL sign-off and tape-out.
• Strong understanding of clock/reset architectures, interrupts, register interfaces, memory interfaces, and power-management functionality from an RTL verification perspective.
• Demonstrated ability to lead verification across multiple projects and geographically distributed teams.
• Strong engineering judgment and ability to make data-driven RTL sign-off decisions.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience verifying multi-core or multi-engine SoCs with complex interconnect and memory architectures.
• Experience with protocols such as PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, DDR/LPDDR, USB, or other high-speed interfaces relevant to the product.
• Experience with X86 and ARM processor subsystems.
• Experience in ARM based and X86 based SOC.
• Has understanding of GFX/GPU based SOC.
• Experience developing reusable UVM verification IP and environments.
• Experience with low-power RTL verification, including UPF-driven simulation where applicable.
• Strong scripting and automation experience using Python or similar languages.
• Experience establishing verification methodologies and infrastructure across multiple semiconductor product generations.

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