We have an opportunity in the growing domain of Automotive for a Principal Verification Engineer.

You will work closely together with the digital & analog architects and designers, the DFT architect and the validation engineers to develop state-of-art automotive designs.

You will be responsible for:

• Definition of the Verification infrastructure, including test benches and Verification-IP for IP and SOC level verification to ensure high quality automotive designs.
• Contributing to the definition of Verification requirements, Verification strategy and plan
• Driving and participating to the execution of Verification plan within budget and timing constraint
• Participation to Change Control Board, reviews, inspections, walkthroughs from the Verification perspective
• Definition of state-of-art Verification methodologies and a mindset to continuous search for improvements of quality and efficiency.
• Keeping your competence state-of-art in the field of Verification, and build up core competence in the Ethernet domain
• Collaborate with other teams part of Product development (i.e. system, architecture, software, design, test engineering, application)

Your Profile

To be successful in this role you have:

• Bachelor or Master's Degree, with more than 10 years’ experience in IC verification
• Knowledge of Industry standard protocols like USB, SPI, Ethernet, I2C, MII/GMII/RGMII, PCIe, SGMII, USXGMII
• Understanding of PHY (SGMII/100BTx/100BT1/1000BT1/2500BT1) application domain and implications on verification
• Understanding of Ethernet switch application domain and implications on verification
• Broad experience and knowledge of verification methodologies and tooling, including System Verilog, UVM, constraint random verification and assertions.
• Hands-on experience with scripting languages like Python and Perl

Strong benefits are:

• Experience with ARM processors and C-based verification is a strong benefit, as well as experience with FPGA and emulation
• Experience in participating in problem solving effort in the role of verification engineer

Furthermore, you are:

• Proven to be an excellent communicator and team player with analytical skills and capability to easily switch between detail and helicopter view

Your team

You will have the chance to contribute to the key growth area for the future for NXP semiconductors and to build on the evolution towards self-driving cars. NXP’s Automotive business unit offers sensor and processing technology that drives all aspects of the secure connected cars of today and the autonomous cars of tomorrow.

Our product line In-Vehicle Networking (IVN) is the world’s leading supplier of integrated circuits for in-vehicle communication, ranging from LIN, CAN, Flex Ray to Ethernet PHYs and switches.

In high-end vehicles, there are more than 100 transceivers inside the vehicle and thanks to NXP’s market leadership; virtually every car produced in the world is equipped with at least one of NXP’s IVN products.

We work with all major automotive manufacturers and Tier 1s, and we are recognized in the industry as the leader in performance, quality and technology. We have an international organization with offices in The Netherlands, India, Germany & China.

The location of this vacancy is Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

What’s next

If you’re excited about your this position, we're looking forward to your cv and motivation, feel welcome to apply!

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