Digital Verification Engineer – ITALY
RTL / HDLVerificationSoC / ASICPosted Sep 1, 2025
Overview
Skills named in this posting
- SystemVerilog
- UVM
- DFT
- Mixed-signal
CORTUs is looking for DIGITAL VERIFICATION ENGINEER in Italy with permanent contract.
You will be part of the Hardware Design team, involved in design, verification and physical implementation. Your primary focus will be the verification of System-on-Chip (SoC), IP blocks, and full custom ASIC/IC designs.
Your responsibilities will include :
• Defining verification strategies and testbench architectures (System Verilog, UVM, C-driven, etc) based on circuit specifications to ensure optimal verification coverage
• Developing detailed verification plans aligned with design specifications
• Creating and implementing verification environment and test sequences according to the verification plans
• Taking ownership of verification strategy definition, implementation and ensuring the overall quality of the verification process
• Supervising and mentoring junior verification engineers
• Continuously improving the verification flow and methodology
Minimum requirements
• Engineering Msc. or Bsc. degree in Electronics/Telecommunications/Computer Science or equivalent;
• Deep experience in defining IPs test specification in closed collaboration with product definers and architects;
• Strong experience on digital verification methodologies (Formal and UVM) using state of the art EDA tools;
• Understand and debug digital RTL;
• Determine technology requirements, dependencies and deliverables based on project specifications;
• Experience inwriting IP verification plans, creating test benches and automating regression test suites to ensure 100% coverage prior tape-out;
• Experience with mixed signal (analog, digital) verification methodologies using state of the art EDA tools;
• Capability in developing behavioral models for analog IPs, understand and debug analog schematics;
• Knowledge of Design For Testability (DFT) techniques;
• Knowledge in configuration database management (Git, SVN);
• English language written and spoken
• Proven communication/interpersonal skills;
• Able to assume responsibility for a variety of technical tasks and troubleshooting;
• Strong sense of responsibility and ability to achieve deadlines.
Job type, primary locations and application reference
Full time with permanent contract
Primary locations: LECCE, (Apulia region), Italy
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Original posting: cortus.com
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Founded in 2005, Cortus is a French fabless semiconductor manufacturing group headquartered in Mauguio (near Montpellier, France) with subsidiaries in Italy, Greece and Spain. | Cortus is a leading semiconductor, embedded systems and IoT solutions company headquartered in Mauguio (near Montpellier, France) with offices in Meyreuil (France) and Moscow (Russia) as well as subsidiaries in Greece, Italy, Brazil and Taiwan.
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