Senior ASIC Verification Specialist

Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada

About Us:
Headquartered in Ottawa, BTA Design serves the electronic design community in Canada and beyond, specializing in ASIC and FPGA design and verification, and embedded software development services. We augment and enhance our clients’ teams and accelerate the development of complete designs.

We’re adaptable and efficient, with a brilliant staff at our core. We aim to be the best at what we do.

Our success continues to fuel growth. We are currently searching globally for a number of key technical resources, including a Senior ASIC Verification Specialist. 

About the Position:
In this role you will use SystemVerilog and UVM, working from spec coverage-closed verified and debugged designs, developing environments and leveraging 3rd party VIP as appropriate. You will verify blocks or sub-systems or top level within large and very complex networking or GPU/AI SoCs in advanced technology nodes down to 3nm FinFET. You will work within a strong and very experienced team and on world class ASIC environments with BTA’s clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform design verification of large ASICs that integrate custom, high speed computational accelerators with 3rd-party SoC IP blocks.
• Develop verification environment architecture using UVM.
• Document test environment associations and write test cases.
• Support lab bring-up with direct test cases.
• Perform code and functional coverage.

• 7+ years of experience in ASIC verification.
• Highly skilled in Verilog, SystemVerilog, other hardware description languages, and scripting languages.
• Significant experience with UVM / OVM methodologies.
• Experience with ARM / MIPS / RISC-V architecture.
• Familiarity with constrained random verification techniques, assertions and functional coverage.
• Experience with Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture is an asset
• Experience with APB / AXI and processor peripheral interfaces is an asset.
• Team player – excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Compensation:
$120,000 to $170,000 plus company bonus and benefits plan.
Salary is heavily dependent on individual experience and capability.

This is a new position. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Artificial Intelligence tools are not used in the evaluation and selection of candidates.

Why Work Here?
We offer interesting work in challenging, stimulating technical environments with companies that lead the world in technology and innovation.

We recognize that our strength is in the individuals who join our team, so at BTA Design Services, we foster an environment where everyone is appreciated, trusted and engaged. We recognize that work-life balance is important and we strive to provide our employees with challenging roles that also allow them to enjoy family, friends and life outside of work.