Senior Staff Engineer, Digital Verification and Methodology

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Join the thinkers, builders, and problem solvers behind tomorrow’s technology. As a Senior Staff Engineer, Digital Verification and Methodology on our Research & Development team, you'll have the opportunity to merge creativity with your technical expertise by shaping the future of technology, driving groundbreaking projects, and bringing new ideas to life.

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Your role

Senior Staff Engineer, Digital Verification and Methodology. Join a collaborative team that values diverse perspectives and leads functional verification for advanced integrated circuits while scaling reusable methodologies across global development sites

Key responsibilities in your new role

• Lead end-to-end verification strategy from requirements analysis through sign-off
• Architect reusable SystemVerilog UVM environments and scalable object-oriented testbenches
• Implement constrained-random and assertion-based verification with robust functional coverage
• Drive metric-driven coverage closure and establish clear quality criteria
• Translate specifications and microarchitecture into tests, checkers, coverage models, and sign-off evidence
• Improve verification methodologies, automation, and tool flows across projects and development sites
• Collaborate with design, firmware, and system teams to debug issues and ensure reliable hardware-software interaction

Your profile

You bring analytical thinking, clear communication, and collaborative problem-solving. You thrive in a globally distributed environment and build trust across functions while driving results

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed 

• Mandatory: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Mandatory: 5+ years in ASIC, SoC, or FPGA functional verification with ownership of complex block, subsystem, or chip-level deliverables
• Mandatory: Expert proficiency in SystemVerilog, UVM, object-oriented testbench architecture, constrained-random verification, functional coverage, and assertion-based verification
• Mandatory: Ability to translate specifications and microarchitecture into verification plans, environments, tests, checkers, coverage models, and sign-off evidence
• Mandatory: Written and spoken English at C1 level
• Preferred: Strong debugging skills with a major simulation and debug toolchain and proficiency in Linux development and scripting or programming with Python, Tcl, Bash, C, or C++ for automation
• Nice-to-have: Experience with RTL design and digital architecture plus exposure to Ethernet or complex protocols, security verification for cryptographic accelerators or secure subsystems, power-aware verification using UPF, and practical use of AI or machine learning and AI-enabled EDA tools
  

Additional information

Infineon Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws.

Employment at Infineon is contingent upon proof of your legal right to work in the United States under applicable law, verification of satisfactory references, successful completion of a background check and drug test, and signing all your on-boarding documents.

In some instances, if applicable, U.S. export control laws require that Infineon obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing technologies to certain persons. This offer is contingent upon Infineon's ability to satisfy these export control laws as related to your employment and anticipated job activities. The decision whether or not to submit and/or pursue an export license to satisfy this contingency, if applicable, shall be at Infineon's sole discretion.

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This position requires access to documentation that is controlled by the export laws of the United States. Candidates are required to provide proof of either US citizenship, Permanent US residency, or classification as a protected individual as defined in 8USC 1324b(a)(3).

Salary pay information:

LocationIndicative salary rangeLexington, KY, United StatesWage range that the company expects to pay for a qualified candidate:

US$121,840 – US$182,760

In addition, all employees will be eligible to participate in an incentive plan.

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