Senior Design Verification Engineer, Hardware Compute Group

Job description

Description
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics.

Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products.

Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo.

What will you help us create?

As a Sr. Design Verification Engineer at Amazon, you will be part of an advanced engineering and research team that is building world class hardware for devices.

The ideal candidate should have experience with RTL development environments, fluency in modern hardware description languages and verification methodologies.

They should have experience verifying complex IP blocks from scratch that have successfully been integrated in SOCs or other such silicon that have been productized in consumer devices.

We are looking for a self-driven individual who can work with architects, HW and SW developers and can quickly resolve blocking issues.

Key job responsibilities
- Define the verification methodology and implement the corresponding test bench infrastructure in advanced HVL to verify world class hardware
- Communicate and work with team members across multiple disciplines
- Deliver detailed test plans for verification of complex digital design blocks by working with design engineers and architects
- Create and enhance constrained-random verification environments using SystemVerilog and UVM and write SVA.
- Identify and write all types of coverage measures for stimulus and corner-cases
- Debug tests with design engineers to deliver functionally correct design blocks
- Close coverage measures to identify verification holes and to show progress towards tape-out
- Participate in test plan and coverage reviews


Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in EE, CE, or CS.

- 7+ years of hands-on experience in Verilog, SystemVerilog, C/C++ based verification and UVM methodology

- Experience developing UVM test bench, writing testplan, developing tests and verifying the design

- Experience with writing directed/constrained-random tests.

- Experience identifying bugs in architecture, functionality and performance with strong overall debug skills

- Experience verifying at multiple levels of logic from SoCs to full system testing Experience with industry standard tools and scripting languages (Python or Perl) for automation


Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with CPU based verification.

- Experience with high performance industry standard IO interfaces like AMBA AXI4, USB, MIPI etc.

- Domain knowledge in image/video processing

- Strong programming skills in C/C++ and scripting skills in Python and/or Perl

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.

Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits .

This position will remain posted until filled.

Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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