Hardware Developer - Pre & Post Silicon Validation

Introduction

At IBM Infrastructure & Technology, we build and run the systems that keep the world moving. This includes high-resiliency mainframes and hybrid cloud platforms, along with networking, automation, and site reliability. Our teams deliver the performance, security, and scalability that clients and industries rely on every day. In Infrastructure & Technology, you’ll tackle demanding problems through curiosity and teamwork, working with a wide range of technologies and colleagues across the globe to deliver resilient, future-ready solutions that drive innovation. With ongoing learning, real career growth, and a collaborative culture, IBM offers the chance to develop expertise and help shape the infrastructure powering progress.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a Hardware Developer for Cognitive Systems and IBM Z, you will be responsible for creating test architectures, drivers, and checkers that test and verify designs used in these systems. The position requires leveraging logic simulation or formal verification methods to ensure the hardware design under verification meets the required specifications.

Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include

• Develop Test Architectures: Create and advance test architectures, drivers, and checkers using the latest technology to test and verify designs used in Cognitive Systems and IBM Z.
• Perform Validation Tests: Execute validation tests or develop tools needed to run verification tests, confirming that the hardware design under verification performs according to specifications.
• Integrate Products: Integrate products from leading I/O and networking suppliers, using networking and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) business debug skills.
• Apply Verification Principles: Use Random/Deterministic Verification Principles and engineering principles to support comprehensive verification of designs.
• Collaborate with Partners: Partner with industry collaborators and/or customers to integrate and verify products, including Ethernet, Fiber Channel, or Infiniband networking products.
  
  

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Functional Verification Expertise: Experience developing test architectures, drivers, and checkers for pre-silicon testing, using logic simulation or formal verification techniques to validate hardware designs.
• I/O and Networking Integration: Experience integrating products from industry-leading I/O and networking suppliers, including Ethernet, Fiber Channel, or Infiniband networking products, requiring networking and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) business debug skills.
• Verification Principles Application: Experience applying Random/Deterministic Verification Principles and using knowledge of Engineering Principles to ensure thorough verification of designs.
• Industry Collaboration: Experience working with industry partners and/or customers to integrate and verify products, including those working with IBM P&Z Systems Servers.
• Early Bring-up and Test: Experience supporting early bring-up and functional integration testing of Input/Output (I/O) networking adapters, network switches, or devices.
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Networking Debug Skills: Experience with networking and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) business debug skills is beneficial for integrating products from industry-leading I/O and networking suppliers.
• Industry Partner Collaboration: Experience working with industry partners and/or customers to integrate and verify products, including those working with IBM P&Z Systems Servers, is advantageous.
• Formal Verification Techniques: Knowledge of formal verification techniques to validate hardware designs is desirable for this role.