AI/ML Design Verification Engineer (Staff)

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Are you a creative engineer looking for challenges?

Want to develop technologies that improve people’s everyday life?

Qualcomm AI HW team is looking for a strong ASIC design verification engineer.

Join our effort in developing world class ML HW solutions and push the boundaries on features and performance.

As a member of the team, your responsibilities include:

• Collaborate closely with RTL design, architecture, and verification leads to develop block‑level verification strategies and formal test plans for AI/ML/DSP IP.
• Develop and maintain formal verification environments using SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) and industry‑standard formal tools (e.g. VC Formal).
• Write assertions, cover properties, and interface checkers to validate protocol correctness, control logic behavior, and corner‑case scenarios.
• Apply sound ASIC engineering practices to debug architecture, design, or verification issues with minimal supervision, using counterexamples, bounded proofs, abstractions, and formal constraints.
• Collaborate with the simulation DV team to ensure alignment between formal‑based and UVM‑based verification approaches.
• Develop or integrate reference models (C/SystemC/Python)
• Analyze formal coverage, assertion coverage, and unreachable code, and drive convergence through model refinement or abstraction techniques.
• Participate in the overall verification flow, including RTL code coverage, functional coverage analysis, and (when appropriate) gate‑level checks.
• Identify opportunities for productivity improvements, including reusable property templates, automated scripts, better debug flows, or enhancements to verification methodology.
• Communicate promptly and clearly with the verification lead regarding risks, blockers, or deviations from the planned schedule or verification goals.

Required Competencies:

• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, including combinational/sequential logic, finite state machines, datapaths, and control logic.
• Hands‑on experience with SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) for protocol checking, control logic validation, and coverage.
• Experience using at least one formal verification tool, such as Synopsys VC Formal, Cadence JasperGold, or Siemens Questa Formal.
• Hands‑on experience in functional verification using SystemVerilog, UVM, or similar methodology.
• Experience with reference models implementation or integration.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Tcl, or shell for automation, debug acceleration, or flow improvements.
• Strong analytical/problem‑solving skills and willingness to learn new verification techniques.

• Effective communication skills for interacting with RTL designers, architects, and DV leads to clarify requirements and verification intent.
• Ability to document test plans, assumptions, assertions, and verification results clearly and concisely.

• Self‑motivated and able to take ownership of verification tasks with minimal supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience verifying AI/ML, DSP, or compute hardware.
• Knowledge of formal methodologies such as abstraction techniques, induction, convergence strategies, or cut‑point modeling.
• Experience with Formal Datapath Verification (DPV) on complex arithmetic or ML datapaths.
• Experience with RTL coding in Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Strong curiosity and interest in advancing verification methodology, tooling, or automation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$129,600.00 - $179,600.00

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