Principal SOC Performance Verification Engineer
Core
Pre-silicon SoC performance verification engineer responsible for developing strategies, test plans, and environments to validate power and performance tradeoffs across CPU, fabric, and memory subsystems.
Role type
Principal SoC Performance Verification Engineer
Builds
Pre-silicon SoC designs and subsystems
Domain
Semiconductor / SoC Architecture / Performance Verification
Required skills
Pre-silicon SoC verification, Performance verification, CPU/Fabric/DDR/IO verification, ARM architecture, Memory Controller/PHY IPs, DDR protocols, Coherent/non-coherent fabric IPs, PCIe/CXL protocols, ACE lite/CHI bus protocols, C/C++ programming, Emulation, Test plan development, Debugging
Preferred skills
Mentorship, Architecture alignment, Continuous improvement methodology
Technologies
C, C++, Emulation tools, ARM, PCIe, CXL, DDR
Responsibilities
Develop verification strategy, test plans, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies; Write and implement tests, test generators, test benches, checkers, and coverage; Run tests, correlate results with architecture, and debug failures to root cause; Mentor and coach team members; Align with architecture, design, firmware, and emulation teams.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship
