Senior Firmware Verification Engineer

Short Summary

Senior Firmware Verification Engineer with Renesas Electronics. Job Description Renesas Electronics America is seeking a Senior Firmware Verification Engineer to join the Infrastructure Power team. This role owns pre-silicon verification of embedded firmware used to control high-performance power management ICs for data center, AI accelerator, networking, and computing platforms. The engineer will apply a solid…

Key Details

• Position / opportunity: Senior Firmware Verification Engineer
• Organization: Renesas Electronics
• Country / coverage: United States
• Location: Austin, TEXAS, United States
• Work arrangement: On-site
• Opportunity type: Jobs
• Sector: Information Technology
• Compensation: Not specified
• Duration: Not specified
• Start date: 2026-08-20
• Application deadline: Not specified

Description

Job Description Renesas Electronics America is seeking a Senior Firmware Verification Engineer to join the Infrastructure Power team. This role owns pre-silicon verification of embedded firmware used to control high-performance power management ICs for data center, AI accelerator, networking, and computing platforms. The engineer will apply a solid understanding of the firmware development process to build effective test strategies, verify ARM Cortex-M firmware in simulation-based environments, and identify firmware, RTL, and interface defects before silicon availability. Key Responsibilities • Build, maintain, and enhance SystemVerilog-based simulation environments that execute ARM Cortex-M firmware with the associated RTL and hardware models. • Verify firmware behavior across reset, boot, initialization, configuration, sequencing, telemetry, protection, fault handling, recovery, and firmware–hardware interface scenarios. • Analyze C and assembly firmware at source, instruction, register, memory, interrupt, and peripheral levels to diagnose functional and timing-related failures. • Develop directed, constrained-random, negative, stress, boundary, and error-injection tests to validate expected behavior and robustness. • Run regressions; triage failures; perform waveform, log, memory, and register analysis; and isolate issues to firmware, RTL, models, testbench, or tools. • Define and track requirements coverage, functional coverage, code coverage, and regression quality; identify gaps and drive closure. • Create automation using Python, Perl, or similar scripting languages for build and test execution, result checking, log parsing, failure classification, reporting, and continuous integration. • Collaborate closely with firmware developers, RTL designers, architects, and validation engineers to review requirements, improve observability and controllability, reproduce defects, and verify fixes. • Document verification plans, test procedures, coverage results, debug findings, known issues, and release-readiness assessments. Required Qualifications • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. • Minimum 5+ years of experience in firmware verification, embedded firmware testing, firmware development, or pre-silicon verification. • Strong understanding of the embedded firmware development process and how requirements, architecture, implementation, integration, test, debug, and release activities connect. • Deep understanding of C and assembly-based firmware for ARM Cortex-M processors, including exception and interrupt handling, memory maps, startup code, registers, peripherals, and low-level debugging. • Proven firmware testing experience, including test planning, test-case design, negative and boundary testing, regression analysis, defect isolation, and coverage closure. • Strong ability to debug firmware–hardware interactions using simulation logs, waveforms, memory and register traces, and source-level analysis. • Proficiency in Python, Perl, or similar languages for verification automation and regression infrastructure. • Familiarity with embedded interfaces such as I2C, PMBus, SPI, UART, or similar protocols. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills. Preferred Qualifications • Experience verifying PMIC firmware, digital power management, voltage regulation, sequencing, telemetry, or protection features. • Hands-on experience developing, maintaining, or debugging SystemVerilog-based pre-silicon simulation environments. • Experience with waveform and debug tools such as SimVision, Verdi, or similar tools. • Working knowledge of RTL design and firmware-controlled digital subsystems. • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated regression farms, test dashboards, and scalable failure-triage workflows. • Experience improving firmware testability through assertions, monitors, scoreboards, reference models, hooks, or diagnostic instrumentation. • Post-silicon bring-up or lab-debug experience is beneficial but is not the primary focus of this role. • Experience with QEMU, emulation, FPGA-based…

Responsibilities

• Job Description Renesas Electronics America is seeking a Senior Firmware Verification Engineer to join the Infrastructure Power team.
• This role owns pre-silicon verification of embedded firmware used to control high-performance power management ICs for data center, AI accelerator, networking, and computing platforms.
• The engineer will apply a solid understanding of the firmware development process to build effective test strategies, verify ARM Cortex-M firmware in simulation-based environments, and identify firmware, RTL, and interface defects before silicon availability.
• Key Responsibilities • Build, maintain, and enhance SystemVerilog-based simulation environments that execute ARM Cortex-M firmware with the associated RTL and hardware models.
• • Verify firmware behavior across reset, boot, initialization, configuration, sequencing, telemetry, protection, fault handling, recovery, and firmware–hardware interface scenarios.
• • Analyze C and assembly firmware at source, instruction, register, memory, interrupt, and peripheral levels to diagnose functional and timing-related failures.

Requirements / Eligibility

• coverage, functional coverage, code coverage, and regression quality; identify gaps and drive closure.
• • Create automation using Python, Perl, or similar scripting languages for build and test execution, result checking, log parsing, failure classification, reporting, and continuous integration.
• • Collaborate closely with firmware developers, RTL designers, architects, and validation engineers to review requirements, improve observability and controllability, reproduce defects, and verify fixes.
• • Document verification plans, test procedures, coverage results, debug findings, known issues, and release-readiness assessments.
• Required Qualifications • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

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