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Director of Verification (m/f/d)

Full-time
Axelera AI

5656 AE Eindhoven
E: careers@axelera.ai

Language: English
Hours / week: 40

Location:

High Tech Campus 5

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This is a senior leadership role within one of the Europe’s highest profile Semiconductor start-up companies. The Director of Verification will drive an international Verification team as well as influence development within Axelera’s multicore in-memory-compute SoC. The Verification Director will devise the Verification roadmap for next-generation projects, and be hugely influential in the ongoing success of the company.

The Director of Verification will be an experienced Verification expert with a strong track record of major verification leadership roles within ASIC development, from initial concept to final release. The Director of Verification will be a natural leader, able to inspire and influence the team, and have credibility when working with senior technical colleagues at Lead and Director level. 

This role calls for a hands-on leader with a vision and capable of leading a team in executing that vision. The director will be responsible for an organization of 10-15 engineers internally and managing external resources.

This role is to be based in the Eindhoven office however flexible working is available.

You will have demonstrable expertise in: 

  • Test specification to metric driven sign-off 
  • Hardware Verification Languages theory and practice, including usage in RTL verification of Soc Ours is a Verilog / System Verilog environment, with a mix of UVM, Python and directed verification
  • Strong knowledge of RTL test-plan generation, assertion based and formal verification techniques and coverage analysis
  • Directed and Constrained Random test approaches. Embedded programming experience would be an advantage
  •   Knowledge of RISC-V would be an advantage

You will have key responsibilities such as

  • Lead the verification team, drive methodology and strategy for the verification of high performance SOC’s
  • Drive the test bench architecture, test plan and test bench development for full chip and subsystem verification 
  • Mentor and lead a team of verification engineers to complete unit, subsystem and chip level verification
  • Develop and maintain methodology, flows, and sign-off criteria verification team

Essential skills

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Science, engineering, or a similar discipline 
  • 20 years of work experience in silicon design/ verification roles 
  • 10+ years of people management experience, with a proven track record of building teams and capable of attracting, motivating, and energizing the very best.
  • Experience in verification of multi-million gate ASICs, SoC system interconnect, CPU subsystems or Networking fabrics
  • Ability to communicate effectively within the team, across teams and with external parties
  • Self-starter and highly motivated 
  • Fluent in English, both in speaking and writing

Desirable Experience and skills

  • Standard verification methodologies like UVM
  • Coverage sign offs for tapeout 
  • Continuous integration methodology, architecting regression test-suites
  • Setting up processes and checks for receiving releases from IP vendors and providing IP releases to internal teams
  • Project management, milestone definition and planning
  • You are a team player who likes to elaborate technical concepts together with your colleagues
  • Able to work autonomously and plan and perform research tasks
  • You have a strong sense of responsibility and want to “Make the impossible possible”
  • Experience with Emulation platforms
  • Experience with FPGA verification platforms
  • Fluency in English (Dutch would be an plus)

 

Who we are

Axelera AI is a truly European deep-tech Start Up company which is developing a game-changing hardware and software platform for AI at the edge that will make the industry more integrated, efficient and accessible. Our mission is to spread artificial intelligence for a green, fair, trusted and safe world enabling new application of AI in diverse sectors like smart cities, retail and other markets. Our company is a spin-off from a multinational deep-tech group and is backed by a strong syndicate of institutional investors. We have an extraordinary and international team of top talented researchers and developers working in the headquarter in Eindhoven (NL) and in the branch offices in Leuven (BE), Zurich (CH) and Pisa (IT).

What we offer

Take the chance to become part of a dynamic, fast-growing, international organization. We offer an attractive compensation package, including a pension plan, extensive employee insurances and the option to get company shares.

An open culture that not only supports creativity and continual innovation is awaiting you.

Collaborative ownership and freedom with responsibility is characteristic for the way we act and work as a team.

 

Interested?

Great! We are looking forward to receiving your application! For any further questions or information, please feel free to contact Heike Wilfling, HR Business Partner, careers@axelera.ai. For further information on Axelera AI please also have a look on our website: www.axelera.ai