Principal Design Verification Engineer

Location: Ho Chi Minh, vn

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced MCU Design Verification Principal Engineer to lead and contribute to the verification of complex MCU / SoC designs. In this role, you will take technical ownership of verification strategy, methodology, and execution to ensure functionality, performance, and quality meet project and customer specifications.
This position requires deep expertise in MCU architecture, advanced verification methodologies, strong technical leadership, and the ability to collaborate effectively with global cross‑functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

Verification Planning & Strategy:
Define and own end‑to‑end verification strategy for MCU / SoC at IP, subsystem, and full‑chip levels.
Develop and maintain verification plans based on SRD / PRD / architecture specifications.
Define verification metrics and sign‑off criteria, ensuring coverage‑driven verification completeness.

Testbench & Environment Development:
Architect, review, and enhance scalable and reusable verification environments using SystemVerilog and UVM.
Lead development of test infrastructure including drivers, monitors, scoreboards, assertions, and coverage models.
Promote best practices for reuse across MCU projects.

Debugging, Analysis & Quality Assurance:
Lead debugging and root‑cause analysis of complex functional, integration, and low‑power issues.
Work closely with RTL, architecture, and backend teams to ensure early issue detection and resolution.
Drive functional and code coverage closure to meet project quality targets.

Methodology, Automation & Productivity:
Drive continuous improvement of verification methodologies, including constrained‑random, assertion‑based, and formal verification.
Contribute to verification flow standardization across projects.

Technical Leadership & Mentoring:
Act as technical lead and sign‑off owner for assigned IPs, subsystems, or chip‑level verification.
Mentor and coach verification engineers, providing technical guidance and best practices.
Collaborate with global teams (VN / JP / IN) in a multi‑site development environment.

Qualifications

Technical Expertise:
Strong experience in MCU / SoC design verification, covering IP, subsystem, and full‑chip levels.
Solid understanding of MCU architecture and system operation

Proficiency in:
SystemVerilog, UVM, and SVA
Functional and code coverage methodologies
Strong debugging capability at RTL, simulation, and regression levels.

Experience:
Typically 12+ years of experience in design verification or related MCU / SoC development roles.
Proven experience taking technical ownership and leading verification activities through silicon sign‑off.

Soft Skills:
Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
Ability to work independently and influence technical decisions across teams.
Comfortable working in a global, multi‑cultural engineering environment.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with formal verification and low‑power verification.
Exposure to functional safety or security‑related verification
Prior experience as verification lead or sign‑off owner for MCU / SoC projects.

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

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