Digital ASIC Verification Engineer

Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day. This means that when you digitally interact in your world - picking up the phone, streaming video, texting a friend or loved one – your interactions are being enabled by Ciena technologies. Ciena makes your social / entertainment / business existence REAL.

This role is ideally Ottawa, Ontariobased however remote in Canadamay also be available.

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What will you do at Ciena as aDigital ASIC Verification Engineer?

The Wavelogic family of ASICs are widely used in Ciena’s optical fiber transmission products and are one of the main contributors to Ciena’s success in the telecommunications industry. To further strengthen our team, we are looking for a hardworking Digital ASIC Verification engineer who will be involved in the verification of these large mixed-signal SoC ASICs, working within a team of digital design, verification engineers and architects.

Your role as the engineer will be to propose and implement innovative verification strategies, in order to thoroughly simulate and validate functional blocks and subsystems for the Wavelogic ASICs.

The Responsibilities:

• As our new Digital ASIC verification engineer will complete thorough validation of one or more architectural functional blocks by using an appropriate combination of simulation, formal and coverage methods;
• Encouraged to read and understand the architecture and functional requirements specification document(s) and communicate and collaborate with systems engineers and architects;
• The formation of the verification, functional coverage and formal verification test plans;
• The creation of testbench environment and/or components, agents, scoreboard, and all test scenarios related to your architectural functional block using System Verilog UVM and/or C where applicable;
• Performing coverage driven verification, monitor regressions and debug resulting failures with the help of the function’s designer;
• Highly encouraged to report on status updates on a regular basis.
  
  

What technical experience and personal skills are required for this role?

• Electrical or computer engineering, computer science or other applicable scientific degree at the BEng/BSc or MEng/MSc level;
• A highly motivated self-starter, able to work independently, while being a standout colleague;
• Ability to methodically seek out sophisticated technical problems;
• Excellent organization, written and oral (English) interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with formal verification methods;
• Familiarity with standards and protocols such as OTN, B100G, Ethernet;
• Programming Languages: Python, Make, bash, object-oriented programming, C, C++, System C.

The above lists are intended to describe the general nature & level of work, and they are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required to be qualified and to be performed by the selected candidate. You will have an opportunity to better understand the role through the interview process.

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