We are looking for a motivated and intellectually curious Design Verification Engineer to join the Microsoft Artificial Intelligence System on Chip (AISoC) Silicon team. This role is crucial for delivering high-quality designs in a dynamic, high-performance environment.

Responsibilities

1. Verification Planning. Collaborate with architecture and design engineers to plan verification test scenarios for complex IP/SoC designs.
2. Test Environment Creation. Develop and enhance constrained-random verification environments using SystemVerilog and UVM or perform formal verification with SVA and leading formal tools.
3. Test Development. Create tests using UVM or C/C++.
4. Debugging. Analyze and debug test failures in collaboration with designers to ensure functionally correct designs.
5. Functional Coverage. Identify and write functional coverage for stimulus and corner cases, and close coverage gaps to meet tape-out requirements.

Qualifications

1. Experience. Minimum 3 years in design verification with a proven track record in delivering complex CPU or SoC IPs.
2. Verification Knowledge. Strong understanding of verification principles, testbenches, stimulus generation, and UVM or C++ based test environments.
3. Computer Architecture. Good grasp of computer architecture concepts.
4. RTL Debugging. Significant experience in debugging RTL (Verilog) designs, as well as simulation and/or emulation environments.
5. Scripting. Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or Perl.

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