Our client, a leading federal defense contractor has multiple openings for Senior Verification ASIC FPGA Engineer in their Scottsdale, AZ location. Once you join the team, you will be responsible for definition, design, verification and documentation for ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) and/or FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) developments.

This role involves creating test and simulation plans, defining module interfaces, determining architecture, and evaluating process flows. The engineer will support the generation of technical engineering products and contribute to the improvement of organizational processes.

Duties and Tasks:
- Responsible for definition, design, verification and documentation for ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) and/or FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) developments
- Determines architecture, system simulation and detailed design approach
- Defines module interfaces and all aspects of device design and simulation
- Evaluates the process flow including but not limited to high level design, synthesis, place and route, timing and power utilization
- Creates test and simulation plans that establish functional criteria
- Verifies test results and analyzes performance
- May also review vendor capabilities, foundry technologies, device libraries and simulation tools
- May lead or have significant contributions to technical subcontract management for medium to large subcontracts that may include SOW development, proposal evaluation, source selection, technical
oversight, and subcontractor work product evaluation and acceptance
- Reviews vendor capability to support product development
- Applies an expert understanding of the organizationally defined processes throughout the lifecycle of the program or project
- Participates in the development, maintenance and improvement of the ASIC/FPGA organizational processes
- Supports the generation of technical engineering products by using the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development life cycle
- Leads the research and analysis of data, such as customer design proposal, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application
- Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability
- May be a book boss on a medium proposal
- Establishes the overall ASIC/FPGA technical approach on large technical proposals
- May participate in multi-divisional or multi-company Integrated Product Team or working group
- May supervise or manage lower level employees
- Exercises considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignments
- Works on advanced applications that may result in new business for the company

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Must be able to obtain a DoD Top Secret / SCI (active Secret or Top Secret is preferred).
- Bachelor-s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a
minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

- 10+ years experience verifying FPGAs or ASICSs
Demonstrated awareness of business objectives and Engineering-s role in achieving
In-depth knowledge of System Verilog object oriented programming and the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
- Understands UVM Test bench Architectures
- Comfortable using and developing UVM agents, bus functional models
- Understands different types of coverage, usage of cover classes, cover points, etc.
- Developing UVM test benches for designs implemented in Xilinx devices with Xilinx IP and SoCs
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- Demonstrated written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to think creatively
- Ability to multi-task
- Demonstrated skill in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions
- Demonstrated ability to recognize and clearly report information relevant to sound engineering design
- Demonstrated understanding and ability to apply project leadership principles including SPI/CPI, Earned Value, Cost Account Management (CAM), and Statistical Process Controls
- Demonstrated ability to manage scope growth
- Frequent contact with all levels across the entire company
- Serves as consultant to management and customers on projects and applications
- May serve as company technical spokesperson
- Works under consultative direction on predetermined long-range objectives
- Assignments may be self-initiated
- Works on unusually complex problems and provides creative and innovative solutions