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Job Title: Senior Software-Focused Verification Engineer

Job Description

This role seeks a highly experienced, software-focused verification engineer to design, develop, and maintain verification environments for validating RTL designs. You will apply strong programming skills and modern software engineering practices in a hardware-focused context, building robust test infrastructures, crafting comprehensive test plans, and driving high-quality RTL verification. This position is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, reusing and extending existing codebases, and shaping scalable, reusable verification frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain verification test environments for RTL designs, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and reusable across multiple projects.
• Create, execute, and maintain comprehensive test cases and regression suites to validate RTL functionality and design intent.
• Identify edge and corner cases and design tests that expose potential design defects through systematic and rigorous verification methodologies.
• Perform regression analysis, investigate and triage test failures, and work to quickly isolate root causes.
• Develop and implement detailed verification test plans based on technical hardware specifications and design documentation.
• Collaborate closely with hardware designers to understand RTL implementations and ensure thorough functional coverage.
• Reuse, maintain, and enhance existing verification infrastructure, frameworks, and tools to maximize efficiency and scalability.
• Leverage software engineering best practices, including version control, abstraction, maintainability, modularity, and code reuse, in all verification code and test environments.
• Apply object-oriented programming concepts such as inheritance, abstraction, and polymorphism to build flexible and extensible verification components.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of highly reusable verification environments and influence future verification methodologies and processes.
• Work within Agile or structured software development methodologies to plan, prioritize, and deliver verification tasks and milestones.
• Engage in continuous learning of hardware verification concepts, including RTL verification, SystemVerilog, UVM, and related methodologies, with training support as needed.

Essential Skills

• 10+ years of professional programming experience in C and/or C++ software development.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming concepts, including inheritance, abstraction, and polymorphism.
• Proven experience maintaining, sustaining, or reusing code across multiple projects and codebases.
• Ability to read and interpret technical hardware specifications and develop corresponding verification and test strategies.
• Experience creating and implementing detailed test plans for complex systems.
• in building and maintaining test environments and regression frameworks.
• Experience working within Agile or structured software development methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to apply software engineering best practices such as version control, modular design, abstraction, and maintainable code structures.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with Python scripting for automation and tooling.
• Experience with Bash scripting for build, test, and environment orchestration.
• Experience using Git or similar distributed version control tools.
• Knowledge of SystemVerilog, UVM, RTL verification, or hardware design concepts.
• Interest in verification and hardware-adjacent engineering work, including firmware interaction and regression frameworks.
• Willingness to learn and deepen expertise in hardware verification methodologies with training support.
• Exposure to or interest in ASIC development environments and workflows.

Work Environment

This position is part of an ASIC-focused team in a contract-to-hire arrangement, offering the opportunity to transition into a longer-term role based on performance and business needs. You will work in a hardware verification environment that emphasizes modern software engineering practices and close collaboration with hardware designers. The role provides exposure to RTL verification, SystemVerilog, firmware interaction, regression frameworks, and hardware design methodologies. Training is available for candidates with strong programming foundations who are eager to learn hardware concepts and verification-specific languages. The team values reusable, scalable verification environments, continuous improvement of development methodologies, and a structured, professional approach to software and hardware co-development.

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Ottawa, ON.

The pay range for this position is $51.00 - $75.00/hr.

This is a fully onsite position in Ottawa,ON.

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