Staff AMS Design Verification Engineer

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you. 

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

Senior project lead of a team of engineers in the tasks of guaranteeing specification compliance of analog & mixed signal design by means of advanced verification methodologies and concepts. It involves definition, deployment, and improvement of state-of-the-art verification methodologies.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Take responsibility for design verification to achieve first pass silicon success and to ensure design meets performance, power, and timescale constraints.
• Lead analog & mixed signal verification of complex integrated circuits or sub-systems.
• Provide a technical interface between AMS DV teams and any local contract DV resources.
• Develop verification strategy for mixed signal IPs and implement the verification IP following object-oriented programming principles and methodologies including UVM.
• Verification planning, maintenance, feature extraction, verification tests, coverage and checker development.
• Develop efficient, reusable state-of-the-art verification environments and testbench structures.
• Initiate and participate in review meetings with all functional disciplines such as analog & digital design teams, systems team, test & validation team, and other verification engineers.
• Able to debug the RTL for design intent and interface with cross-functional teams and collaboration in all verification related activities.
• Mentor verification team and provide technical support for verification activities.
• Delegate project tasks appropriately, ensuring the entire team follows procedures and analog practices that are required by internal methodology guidelines.
• Make significant contribution into Renesas’s Analog verification strategy, through representation at group management meetings, customer reviews and cross-site initiatives.
• Keep abreast of industry developments, driving continual improvements within team through effective change management.
• Any ad hoc tasks as deemed reasonable by your manager. 

 Key Performance Measures:

• Develop the technical and non-technical skillset of the team, ensuring clear career development and progression. Demonstrate effective performance management.
• Ensure budget is appropriately managed and resource is utilized to maximize success of deliverables.
• Ensure high quality deliverables in project through effective leadership and risk management.
• Appropriate planning and delegation of tasks to ensure project timescales and quality expectations are met.
• Ensure impactful dissemination of knowledge across teams.
• Driving strategic changes within analog function that positively impact the business - e.g., resource, cost and performance.
• Ensure effective team profiling, through succession planning, development, and strategic talent acquisition.
• Demonstrate elements of Spirit of Renesas in all aspects of work
• Instils culture of innovation, professionalism, and collaboration throughout team. 

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification in electrical engineering, electronics, computer engineering, computer science, or equivalent.
• The ideal candidate has an experience of 8+ years in advanced verification methodologies, owning the verification of complex digital and mixed signal designs.
• Strong fundamentals in analog and mixed signal circuit concepts and topologies.
• Experience working with mixed signal verification environment, simulation, and regression tools such as Cadence Virtuoso, xCelium, Incisive, vManager, IMC.
• Ability to read analog schematics and extract related main functionality.
• Familiar with Verilog based RTL coding and ASIC design methodology.
• Expert in System Verilog for advanced verification methodologies such as assertions, constrained randomization, metric driven, and UVM.
• Familiar with behavioral modelling of analog blocks using System Verilog (RNM) and Verilog AMS.
• Experience in modelling mixed signal blocks including biasing networks, power regulators, bandgaps, simple amplifiers, comparators, data converters, mixers, multiplexers, switches, power converters, etc.
• Experience of modelling power converters is desired.
• Good knowledge of UNIX shell scripting, Perl, and TCL scripting.
• Proven experience in writing verification plans and test bench development, simulation and debugging.
• General:
• Concise and proactive communication skills within a multi-site and multi-cultural environment
• Ability to persuade and influence others based on technical facts.
• Ability to interact with customers · Ability to successfully work with 3rd party contractors.
• Takes responsibility for solutions and makes them happen, self-motivated.
• Looks for continuous improvement in own and Renesas work practices.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Results-oriented and able to deliver on-time under tight schedule pressure.
• Ability to propose innovative solutions.
• Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity

Additional Information

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at www.renesas.com.

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.