ASIC Verification Lead in Ottawa, Canada

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We´re now helping our client BTA Design in Ottawa to find an ASIC RTL Design Lead. This is a direct recruitment to our client with a flexible start date - whenever you feel ready to move! The compensation package will include relocation support. Assistance with acquiring a work permit can be provided if required.

About our client:

Headquartered in Ottawa, BTA Design serves the electronic design community from Canada, specializing in ASIC and FPGA design and verification, and embedded software development services. We augment and enhance our clients´ teams and accelerate the development of complete designs.

We´re adaptable and efficient, with a brilliant staff at our core. We aim to be the best at what we do.

Our success continues to fuel growth. We are currently searching globally for a number of key technical resources, including a Senior ASIC Verification Specialist with deep expertise in UVM and SystemVerilog.

We are looking for world-class engineers, and that means worldwide searching. If you are an exceptional verification lead with an interest in coming to Canada to work with us, we want to hear from you.

About the Position:

In this role you will help build and lead a highly experienced team of verification professionals performing constrained random functional coverage-based verification using SystemVerilog and UVM, working from spec to coverage-closed verified and debugged designs, developing environments, and leveraging 3rd party VIP as appropriate. Your team will verify blocks or sub-systems or top level within large and very complex networking or GPU/AI SOCs in advanced technology nodes down to 3nm FinFET. You will collaborate with strong and very experienced design leads in world-class ASIC environments with BTA´s clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Help build and lead a team verifying blocks, sub-systems or entire chips.
• Support ASIC lead on project planning and management ASIC front-end developments.
• Develop test and coverage plans as well verification environment architectures to be developed using using System Verilog and UVM.
• Document test environment associations and write test cases.
• Employ constrained random verification approaches when possible.
• Support lab bring-up with direct test cases.
• Perform code and functional coverage.

Key Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in ASIC verification.
• Highly skilled in Verilog, SystemVerilog, other hardware description languages, and scripting languages.
• Proven experience with the duties and responsibilities listed above.
• Significant experience with OVM/UVM methodologies.
• Experience developing test plans and coverage plans from scratch
• Experience architecting and developing multiple SV/UVM verification environments, both from scratch and through re-use
• Significant expertise in constrained random verification techniques, assertions and functional coverage.
• Experience with SONET, OTN, Ethernet, PCIe, video processing, GPUs, or AI is a significant asset.
• Team player and leader – excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Why Work Here?

We offer interesting work in challenging, stimulating technical environments with companies that lead the world in technology and innovation.

We recognize that our strength is in the individuals who join our team, so at BTA Design Services, we foster an environment where everyone is appreciated, trusted and engaged. We recognize that work-life balance is important and we strive to provide our employees with challenging roles that also allow them to enjoy family, friends and life outside of work.