EnSilica is all about the people we employ; people who not only have immense engineering talent, but the drive and enthusiasm to apply it across a diverse range of challenging projects.

EnSilica, are a well established leader in semiconductor engineering services and IP in the UK. EnSilica’s newly opened subsidiary in Bangalore is quickly becoming a “Verification Power House” employing top verification engineers to service both European and local customers. The elite team will focus on verifying complex semiconductor products and IP for some of Europe’s leading companies as well as adding to EnSilica’s own portfolio of IP.

We are looking for bright candidates who have an enthusiasm and aptitude for taking on the most challenging verification projects. You will have a broad understanding of different methodologies, but particularly SystemVerilog and OVM/UVM.

Faced with a new project, you will have the ability to develop an effective (and pragmatic) verification strategy and gain the support of the end-customer for the chosen approach. You will be comfortable taking on the role of verification lead, architecting the test environment and driving the other team members to deliver the agreed solution. You understand the importance of monitoring key metrics to assess progress and predict the end-point for the verification process. With 5+ years experience in industry you will relish the opportunity of working on a diverse range of projects that will both challenge and develop your verification skills. Ideally you will be familiar with both Mentor Questa and Cadence Incisive tools. The candidate should have customer facing experience and excellent communication skills.

In return EnSilica will offer an excellent remuneration package with the chance to work in Europe on technically challenging projects.

Key tasks / responsibilities :

• Verification specialist working on customer projects – sometimes as the verification lead.
• To support business development by working with potential customers to understand their verification requirements and develop innovative technical solutions to achieve the design win
• Provide high-class verification support to a wide range of projects. Key tasks would include :
     o Development of a comprehensive verification strategy and plan
     o Architecting and development of the complete test environment
     o Generation of tests to achieve required functional coverage
• Active participation in the Verification community to drive the introduction of new and effective techniques within our business
• Close working with Customer

Key skills / Background :

• 1st or 2.1 Electronics or Computer Science from a good University
• 5+ years experience in industry working on a variety of verification projects
• Extensive knowledge of verification methodologies particularly OVM/UVM and SystemVerilog
• Strong experience in the specification and implementation of verification infrastructures, test benches, models, assertions and functional tests in Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• Familiarity with constrained random verification methodologies, code coverage analysis and running regression tests
• Strong knowledge of debugging VHDL/Verilog RTL
• Good customer facing skills

Personal skills :

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong and effective presentation skills, able to operate at multiple levels including senior management
• Self motivated
• Take ownership of problems
• Creative problem solving
• Team player

No agencies please

The ideal candidate will have a strong academic record and 5+ years experience in digital SoC development, including RTL design, verification and especially logical implementation.

This includes experience of synthesis, Static Timing Analysis, formal verification, Design-For-Test and timing closure.

The candidate should have customer facing experience and excellent communication skills.

Key tasks / responsibilities :

Take ownership for the logical implementation of a customer design from RTL through to tapeout. This does not include hands-on physical design work, but the candidate must be aware of physical layout challenges and be familiar working closely with the layout team to resolve problems (specifically timing closure) to deliver a high quality tapeout in the fastest time.

Close working with Customer

Key skills / Background :

• 1st or 2.1 Electronics, Physics or relevant subject from a Tier 1 group University
• 5-10 years experience in industry with a track record of several successful ASIC tapeouts,
• Good knowledge of the complete ASIC design flow and associated tools and methodologies to deliver working silicon.
• Specific skills in synthesis, simulation, STA, DFT, formal verification and timing closure.
• Knowledge of the following Synopsys tools :
        o Design Compiler
        o PrimeTime
        o Formality
         o Tetramax
• Strong VHDL/Verilog coding skills
• Some verification knowledge – this role does not require specialist verification skills ( e.g. OVM) but the candidate should have good working knowledge of verification methods and simulation.

Personal skills :

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong and effective presentation skills, able to operate at multiple levels including senior management
• Self motivated
• Take ownership of problems
• Creative problem solving
• Team player

No agencies please

As part of our ongoing expansion, EnSilica are looking to strengthen our verification team. We are looking for bright candidates who have an enthusiasm and aptitude for taking on the most challenging verification projects.

You will have a broad understanding of different methodologies, but particularly SystemVerilog and OVM/UVM. Faced with a new project, you will have the ability to develop an effective (and pragmatic) verification strategy and gain the support of the end-customer for the chosen approach.

You will be comfortable taking on the role of verification lead, architecting the test environment and driving the other team members to deliver the agreed solution. You understand the importance of monitoring key metrics to assess progress and predict the end-point for the verification process.

With 5+ years experience in industry you will relish the opportunity of working on a diverse range of projects that will both challenge and develop your verification skills.

Ideally you will be familiar with both Mentor Questa and Cadence Incisive tools.

The candidate should have customer facing experience and excellent communication skills.

Key tasks / responsibilities :

• Verification specialist working on customer projects – sometimes as the verification lead.
• To support business development by working with potential customers to understand their verification requirements and develop innovative technical solutions to achieve the design win
• Provide high-class verification support to a wide range of projects. Key tasks would include :
     o Development of a comprehensive verification strategy and plan
     o Architecting and development of the complete test environment
     o Generation of tests to achieve required functional coverage
• Active participation in the Verification community to drive the introduction of new and effective techniques within our business
• Close working with Customer

Key skills / Background :

• 1st or 2.1 Electronics, Physics or Computer Science from a Tier 1 group University
• 5+ years experience in industry working on a variety of verification projects
• Extensive knowledge of verification methodologies particularly OVM/UVM and SystemVerilog
• Strong experience in the specification and implementation of verification infrastructures, test benches, models, assertions and functional tests in Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• Familiarity with constrained random verification methodologies, code coverage analysis and running regression tests
• Strong VHDL/Verilog RTL
• Good customer facing skills

Personal skills :

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong and effective presentation skills, able to operate at multiple levels including senior management
• Self motivated
• Take ownership of problems
• Creative problem solving
• Team player

No agencies please.

EnSilica is an established company with many years' experience providing high quality IC design services. We work with semiconductor and electronic product companies to develop competitive solutions based on custom silicon technologies – primarily ASIC or FPGA. . EnSilica also offer a portfolio of IP, including a highly configurable 16/32 bit embedded processor called eSi-RISC and the eSi-Comms range of communications IP.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of delivering complex FPGA designs from specification through to hardware testing. The candidate should have customer facing experience and excellent communication skills both written and oral

Key tasks / responsibilities :

• RTL design (VHDL or Verilog) of modules from specification, C/C++ or MATLAB
• Functional verification
• Driving Quartus or ISE tools
• Targeting Altera or Xilinx FPGA devices
• Generate IP using Xilinx Core Generator & System Builder or Altera Megawizard & DSPBuilder
• Debug hardware containing FPGAs using bench test equipment or SignalTap

Key skills / Background :

• 1st or 2.1 Electronics, Physics or Computer Science from a Tier 1 University
• 5+ years experience in industry.
• Strong FPGA tools knowledge including timing closure for FPGAs
• Strong FPGA device knowledge including 3rd party IP availability
• Implementation of high speed interfaces such as PCIe, GbE, rapidI/O
• Building SoCs using embedded processors NIOS or MicroBlaze
• Some knowledge of SystemVerilog, assertions and coverage driven verification
• Bench testing and debugging hardware problems
• Applications knowledge in Communications, Multimedia or high speed networking


Personal skills :

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong and effective presentation skills, able to operate at multiple levels including senior management
• Self motivated
• Take ownership of problems
• Creative problem solving
• Team player


No agencies please.