Hardware Verification Engineer
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Website PQShield
About the role
PQShield is looking for an Experienced Verification Engineer to expand our cryptographic hardware IP team. Candidates should hold a degree in Electronic Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent. We hope that you have at least 7 years of experience, but also an open, research-oriented mindset.
PQShield has been establshed since 2018, so you would be directly working with the founders and inventors of this deep tech startup. However the technology is already a couple of years in the making, its feasibility having been established, funding secured, and it has a clear path to market. This is a great opportunity to make career progress and to get a head start in a rapidly expanding segment of the semiconductor industry (Post-Quantum Cryptography and RISC-V).
Our IP components come together as a RISC-V MCU based Sub-system with advanced (post-quantum) cryptography algorithm support and security features.
What you’ll be doing
- Continuous improvement of our verification methodology.
- Definition and execution of IP block and subsystem level verification plans.
- Creation of reliable, reusable and excellently structured testbenches for subsystem and IP block level verification.
- Hands-on project design/verification involvement, including ownership of verification projects from beginning to end.
- Feedback to design engineers and architects on implementation and specification quality and completeness.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- A commitment to high quality engineering in all areas of their work, including advocating for the best long-term solutions over the easiest or quickest.
- Experience in all stages of the verification lifecycle including verification planning & requirements extraction, directed and constrained random test definition and implementation, Functional and code coverage analysis.
- Formal verification and verification qualification techniques, including experience driving new formal verification flows where they are a good fit for the design.
- Excellent knowledge of object oriented programming (OOP) design patterns.
- Experience with standard commercial EDA Verification Tooling flows.
- Integration of SystemVerilog UVM verification and assertion based IPs from EDA vendors.
- Knowledge of common bus protocols (e.g. AMBA AXI4, AHB).
- Experience verifying hardware/software co-designs.
- Confidence in debugging RTL simulations and testbench issues.
- Degree or equivalent in Electronics/Computer Science or other related discipline.
Specific Technologies You Are Confident Using
- Testbench design and implementation using SystemVerilog UVM.
- SystemVerilog – SVA (SystemVerilog Assertions)
- Version control using Git.
- Writing System and subsystem level tests in C, using CMake as a build system.
- Excellent skills building and maintaining Python programs and libraries to implement verification flows.
- Confidence using tools like Bash, TCL, CMake and Makefiles safely and sensibly.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
- Experience debugging gate level simulations.
- Experience verifying security properties, and/or cryptographic IPs.
- Knowledge of Industry standard SoC Security Architectures
- Knowledge of tamper resistance and/or power side-channel security countermeasures
- Experience working on secure element or smart cards designs.
- Experience using Gitlab CI, or otherwise principles of continuous integration and testing.
Some of the perks of working with us:
- Unparalleled opportunities to learn and accelerated career development.
- A collaborative, team environment with people who truly love what they do.
- Competitive salary and share option scheme.
- Flexible and hybrid working, and a working from home budget.
- Private health insurance for yourself and your family.
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and two wellness weeks).
- 50% gym membership discount.
- The chance to work with a spirited, smart, and friendly team!
PQShield is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We’re passionate about talent and proud to foster an inclusive environment; all applicants will be considered regardless of their gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and age.
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