ASIC Design Verification Engineer

Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company, aims to be the world's most trusted driver by developing the Waymo Driver, which powers its fully autonomous ride-hail service. The Compute Team is responsible for delivering the compute platform that runs the vehicle's software stack, focusing on high-performance custom silicon and system-level architectures.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the design team to define specifications and test plans.
• Execute test plans, including test development, reference model design, and failure debugging.
• Verify key functionality and performance use cases.
• Contribute to the development of verification infrastructure, tools, and methodology.
• Identify and integrate third-party verification IP.
• Collect and analyze coverage metrics.
• Advocate and establish verification best practices.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience using UVM to verify ASICs.
• Strong SystemVerilog coding knowledge and skills.
• Experience with complex digital designs.
• Familiarity with advanced verification techniques like constrained random generation, functional coverage, and assertions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Skills:

• Experience with the full digital design verification cycle from specification through bring-up.
• Knowledge of performance and power validation, digital design (RTL), and formal verification.
• Experience with machine learning and high-performance compute elements.
• Proficiency in C/C++ for reference model development and enhancement.
• Familiarity with formal verification methods.
• Experience with industry-standard protocols, interfaces, and IP components such as PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, and NoCs.