Senior Principal Digital Verification Engineer

In this role, you will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform within the Surgical Operating unit: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/robotic-assisted-surgery/hugo-ras-system.html 

Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is one new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve.  

Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.”  

A Day in The Life 

As a Digital Verification Engineer, you will be part of the global Programmable Logic team within the Electrical Engineering department. You will work in close collaboration with other Electrical engineers and other functions such as Software and Systems engineers. 
You will focus on defining the strategy for verifying our FPGA and SoC real-time platforms for Surgical Robotics systems and accessories, implementing and executing the corresponding verification activities. 

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned: 

• Define verification strategy and testbench architecture at the block and system level 

• Develop testbenches using System Verilog and UVM for functional RTL 

• Develop UVM component like agents (active and passive), scoreboards and environment etc. 

• Develop assertions, functional coverage 

• Develop test plans, UVM based test sequences, layered sequences, virtual sequencers 

• Drive closure of verification metrics to cover verification space 

• Work with the team to identify and close gaps in functional simulation 

• Provide regression setup, debug of RTL and gate level netlist 

• Review industry standard specs and best practices and enhance test plan to improve quality of verification 

• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams like FPGA Designers, Electrical Designers, and Software development teams to ensure successful delivery of product 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements 

• Bachelor’s Degree with 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 8 years of relevant experience 

Nice to Have 

• Proven expertise with UVM and/or System Verilog based verification 

• Excellent understanding of digital verification methodologies and proven experience of verification 

• Knowledge of VHDL 

• Experience with Siemens Questa 

• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Tcl/Python/Perl 

• Experience with Matlab/Simulink and integrating models within a verification framework 

• Verification of SoCs with CPU or Microcontroller cores 

• Previous experience in the medical device industry or other highly regulated industries 

• Knowledge of robotics or surgical robotics 

• Experience with motors, electro-mechanics, low-level control, sensors, and other physical interfaces 

• Experience with image and video processing and vision algorithms 

• Experience in Agile/Scrum/SAFe development methodology 

• Ability to travel up to 25% 

About Medtronic 
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.  We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. 
 
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.