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Principal Engineer, Design Verification

The Data Center and Energy team is seeking a highly experienced Principal Design Verification Engineer to provide strategic leadership and technical direction across our Power Controller BU portfolio at ADI's Durham, NC facility. As a technical leader, the candidate will lead a small team of verification engineers while driving DV strategy, methodology innovation, and execution excellence across multiple projects. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, requiring the candidate to define and implement state-of-the-art verification methodologies, mentor team members, and ensure verification quality across the entire product portfolio.

Analog Devices offers a Flexible Work policy which includes remote work days and alternative schedule options.

Key Responsibilities

- Define and implement the DV strategy for the group, ensuring alignment with business objectives and product roadmaps

- Develop comprehensive DV plans for multiple projects as required

- Drive adoption of state-of-the-art DV methodologies including advanced UVM architectures, formal verification, portable stimulus (PSS), and AI/ML-assisted verification techniques

- Establish verification metrics, KPIs, and quality gates to measure verification progress and coverage closure

- Lead and mentor a small team of design verification engineers, providing technical guidance and career development support

- Conduct code reviews, testbench architecture reviews, and methodology assessments

- Collaborate on recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new verification talent

- Architect scalable, reusable verification infrastructure across multiple projects and product generations

- Drive evaluation and adoption of new EDA tools, verification IP, and emerging methodologies

- Lead development of advanced testbench components including UVM environments, formal verification approaches, and mixed-signal verification solutions

- Support all projects across the portfolio with DV planning, execution oversight, and technical problem-solving

- Partner with analog and digital design teams to ensure seamless integration and verification of mixed-signal designs

- Interface with product engineering, applications, and silicon validation teams

- Represent the verification team in project reviews, design reviews, and executive briefings

- Develop and document best practices, guidelines, and playbooks for the verification organization

- Stay current with industry trends and drive adoption of relevant innovations

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

- 10+ years of hands-on experience in SystemVerilog/UVM-based verification

- 3+ years of technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers, leading verification efforts on complex projects, or managing small teams

- Demonstrated experience architecting verification environments for complex mixed-signal SoCs or power management ICs

- Proven track record of defining and implementing DV strategies across multiple concurrent projects

- Expert-level proficiency in EDA tools and automation (Python, TCL, Perl, Shell) for building verification infrastructure and flows

- Experience with formal verification methodologies and tools (JasperGold, VC Formal, or equivalent)

- Strong understanding of coverage-driven verification, including functional coverage modeling and closure strategies

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present technical content to diverse audiences, including executives

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with portable stimulus standard (PSS) and graph-based verification approaches

- Deep knowledge of analog/mixed-signal verification techniques including SV-RNM modeling

- Experience with verification of ARM/RISC-V based sub-systems or complex SoCs

- Expertise in power management IC verification, including multiphase DC-DC controllers, voltage regulators, and power sequencing

- Experience with voltage interface protocols such as PMBUS, AVS, SVID, SVI3, I2C, SPI

- Knowledge of emulation and FPGA prototyping methodologies for early software enablement

- RTL design experience providing strong design-for-verification perspective

- Experience building and scaling verification teams or capabilities

- Track record of driving process improvements that measurably improved verification quality or efficiency

- AI/ML tools for verification - keen interest and experience leveraging AI for coverage closure, test generation, debug, or productivity improvements

- Proficiency with multiple verification platforms (Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor/Siemens)

- Experience with continuous integration/continuous verification (CI/CV) pipelines

- Familiarity with cloud-based verification and distributed simulation/regression management

- Version control expertise (Git, Perforce) and collaborative development workflows

- Verilog, C/C++, SystemC for modeling and verification

- Strong analytical and debug skills with ability to drive complex issues to resolution

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