Job Title: System Verification Engineer
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands / Remote working
Duration: 11 months
Start Date: ASAP
Experience: 7+ years
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced System Verification Engineer – Functional Safety (FuSa) to join a SoC verification team working on complex, safety-critical semiconductor designs.
This role focuses on system-level verification, fault injection, and functional safety validation using simulation and hardware-assisted verification platforms. You will work closely with architecture, design, firmware, software, validation, and verification teams to ensure robust verification coverage and compliance with functional safety requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute system-level verification plans for safety-critical SoC features
- Define and implement fault injection strategies and safety verification methodologies
- Verify safety mechanisms and safety-related system behaviour
- Translate architecture specifications and safety requirements into verification scenarios
- Debug complex issues across hardware, firmware, software, and verification environments
- Analyse regression results and drive issue resolution through to sign-off
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams throughout the verification lifecycle
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of experience in SoC, subsystem, or system verification
- Strong understanding of Functional Safety (FuSa) concepts in automotive semiconductor development
- Hands-on experience with fault injection and safety verification methodologies
- Strong knowledge of SystemVerilog and UVM
- Experience with Cadence Xcelium and Cadence Verisium Manager (vManager)
- Good understanding of compile-time and run-time switches
- Strong debugging skills across functional verification and fault simulations
- Scripting experience with TCL, Bash, Python, or Perl
- Knowledge of AHB, AXI, and APB protocols
- Experience with regression management and root-cause analysis
Preferred Skills
- Experience working with ISO 26262 automotive functional safety standards
- Experience verifying complex SoC environments
If you are interested in this opportunity, I would love to hear from you and share your CV to tee@microtech-global.com