SR. Manager , Verification

Velodyne Lidar is looking for a Senior Manager to build and lead a talented team of cross platform ASIC and FPGA Verification engineers working on exciting new opportunities in the autonomous mobility and ADAS markets. This is a first strategic hire for this function, as we look to build a horizontal CoE domain in Velodyne, India. You will be part of cross functional team and responsible for ASIC, FPGA and system level verification.

As a Sr. Verification Manager at Velodyne Lidar, you will play a critical role in developing key ASIC technology that drives industry-leading products. By working directly with the most fundamental components of the system, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on all aspects of the sensor design. Team will participate in software/FPGA partitioning and implement/validate FPGA functional blocks.

You will be key member of overall R&D organization, collaborating daily with a highly skilled group of digital design and FPGA engineers creating custom ASICs and systems for self-driving vehicles.

Job Responsibilities:-

• Leading, managing, and developing a team of verification & validation engineers to create a motivated high-performance team.
• Work closely with peers in architecture, design, verification, emulation, FPGA and Hardware teams.
• Should be able to review the requirements, verification plan, test plan, micro-arch, identify scenarios and design intent and develop verification strategies which can ensure defect free ASIC.
• Maintain generic verification environment and regression setups for custom ASICs. Test vector generation, Constraint random vector generation and regression setup.
• Leads activities in support of functional verification, simulation, emulation, safety & other methodologies.
• Develop and maintain UVM environments for ASIC and FPGA interfaces.
• Streamline the verification tools for the mixed signal environment.
• Support tape out flow by working with silicon bring up team for verification script conversion.
• Tester flow support through ATPG test vector generation.
• Timely deliver reliable, manufacturable, and cost-effective solutions for productization.
• Work in cross-functional teams to deliver product features and requirements.

Required Skills and Experience:-

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of technical experience in verification of RTL-based digital systems.
• 5+ years in managing verification teams.
• Experience leading development of architectural approaches from customer and system requirements.
• Work experience creating a self-checking simulation test bench from scratch for SoCs/ASIC/FPGA.
• Experience in driving improvements in verification methodologies.
• Highly proficient in System Verilog for modelling and simulation.
• Highly proficient in UVM techniques for verification of complete ASICs and SOCs: Experience creating drivers, monitors, predictors, and scoreboards.
• Good understanding upon designing digital ASIC/FPGA architectural design documents (micro-architecture documents with timing diagrams, detailed design blocks, etc.).
• Good understanding in deriving digital ASIC/FPGA requirements specification from higher-level (system or board-level) requirements specifications.
• Experience with major vendor simulation tools (Questa, VCS, or similar).

Preferred Skills and Experience:-

• Experience in mixed signal modelling and simulation.
• Experience with FPGA/ASIC co-simulation and interface verification.
• Experience with analog-digital mixed signal simulation environment.
• Knowledge of autonomous systems, sensors, LiDAR.
• Experience in integrating FPGA designs on projects that include hardware and software components.

Location:-

• Bangalore, India.

Company Overview:-

Velodyne Lidar provides smart, powerful lidar solutions for autonomy and driver assistance. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Velodyne is known worldwide for its portfolio of breakthrough lidar sensor technologies. Our lidar technology has revolutionized perception and autonomy for automotive, new mobility, mapping, robotics, and security applications.
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