SMTS Verification Engineering

Overview

Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider, is seeking to hire an exceptional SMTS Verification Engineer to join our Security team in Vught/Rotterdam, Netherlands. Candidates will be joining some of the brightest inventors and engineers in the world to develop products that make data faster and safer.

 

As a SMTS Verification Engineer, the candidate will be reporting to Sr. Manager Verification Engineering and is a Full Time position. This engineer will participate in the verification of secure ASIC cores developed by Rambus Security Division (RSD), working with cross functional teams including ASIC design engineers and architects, other verification engineers, release and embedded SW engineers, security experts, and cryptographers. Cryptography and hardware security experience is not required, but an ability to, and interest in, learning about these areas is important.

 

Rambus offers a flexible work environment, embracing a hybrid approach for the majority of our office-based roles. We encourage employees to spend an average of at least three days per week working onsite, allowing for two days of remote work.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement verification test plans, testbenches, infrastructure, and platforms to produce thoroughly verified and robust products
• Implement best verification practices and improve on the existing methodologies and flows
• Tackle sophisticated problems and develop scalable solutions that work across platforms
• Assist with all existing and future roadmap hardware project phases – bring-up, testing, debug and coverage analysis
• Work with release team to support customer integration and other requests.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in electrical or computer engineering or closely related degree strongly preferred; but substantial, relevant, outstanding work experience may substitute in some cases
• Four or more years of experience working as a verification engineer or related field
• Strong written and verbal communication skills: ability to explain complex concepts in front of technical audience
• Exposure to block-level and/or system-level verification
• Good technical competence that includes a track record of effective verification of complex and configurable digital designs
• Good understanding of standard ASIC verification techniques, including:
  • Test planning
  • Testbench creation
  • Code and functional coverage
  • Directed and SystemVerilog-based constrained random stimulus generation
  • Self-checking – scoreboards, predictors, or reference models
  • Assertions
• Solid understanding of verification methodologies (UVM or OVM) and standard testbench languages
• Comfortable with Unix development environments (make, scripting, SVN, etc.)
• Ability to support lint/lec checking and automation using perl or python scripting
• Regression and coverage management for existing and planned product families.
• Experience with bug tracking, issue tracking and agile project management.
• Familiarity with advanced verification techniques such as object-oriented testbenches and/or formal verification

Beneficial Experience:

• Experience developing object-oriented testbench infrastructure in C/C++, OVM, or UVM
• Familiarity with IP integration, IP core delivery, and handoff issues
• Data, software, and/or network security; cryptography
• Ability to work with technical writers in the production of technical documentation

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Able to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Able and willing to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Able to coordinate with internal and external teams across time zones
• A demonstrated ability to prioritize and execute tasks so as to achieve goals in an innovative, fast-paced, and often high-pressure environment
• Proven analytical and creative problem-solving abilities
• Passion for writing clean and neat code that adheres to coding standards

About Rambus

Rambus is a global company that makes industry-leading memory interface chips and Silicon IP to advance data center connectivity and solve the bottleneck between memory and processing. With over 30 years of semiconductor experience, we are a leading provider of high-performance products and innovations that maximize the bandwidth, capacity and security for AI and other data-intensive workloads. Our world-class team is the foundation of our company, and our innovative spirit drives us to develop the cutting-edge products and technologies ess