Senior ASIC Verification Specialist

About Us: Headquartered in Ottawa, BTA Design serves the electronic design community in Canada and beyond, specializing in ASIC and FPGA design and verification, and embedded software development services. We augment and enhance our clients’ teams and accelerate the development of complete designs. We’re adaptable and efficient, with a brilliant staff at our core. We aim to be the best at what we do. Our success continues to fuel growth. We are currently searching globally for a number of key technical resources, including a Senior ASIC Verification Specialist. About the Position: In this role you will use SystemVerilog and UVM, working from spec coverage-closed verified and debugged designs, developing environments and leveraging 3rd party VIP as appropriate. You will verify blocks or sub-systems or top level within large and very complex networking or GPU/AI SoCs in advanced technology nodes down to 3nm FinFET. You will work within a strong and very experienced team and on world class ASIC environments with BTA’s clients. Key Responsibilities: * Perform design verification of large ASICs that integrate custom, high speed computational accelerators with 3rd-party SoC IP blocks. * Develop verification environment architecture using UVM. * Document test environment associations and write test cases. * Support lab bring-up with direct test cases. * Perform code and functional coverage. Key Qualifications: * 7+ years of experience in ASIC verification. * Highly skilled in Verilog, SystemVerilog, other hardware description languages, and scripting languages. * Significant experience with UVM / OVM methodologies. * Experience with ARM / MIPS / RISC-V architecture. * Familiarity with constrained random verification techniques, assertions and functional coverage. * Experience with Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture is an asset * Experience with APB / AXI and processor peripheral interfaces is an asset. * Team player – excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Compensation: $120,000 to $170,000 plus company bonus and benefits plan. Salary is heavily dependent on individual experience and capability. This is a new position. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Artificial Intelligence tools are not used in the evaluation and selection of candidates. Why Work Here? We offer interesting work in challenging, stimulating technical environments with companies that lead the world in technology and innovation. We recognize that our strength is in the individuals who join our team, so at BTA Design Services, we foster an environment where everyone is appreciated, trusted and engaged. We recognize that work-life balance is important and we strive to provide our employees with challenging roles that also allow them to enjoy family, friends and life outside of work.

The specialist will perform design verification for large ASICs integrating custom accelerators and third-party IP blocks, focusing on developing verification environments using UVM and documenting test cases. Key tasks include supporting lab bring-up and performing thorough code and functional coverage analysis.

Candidates must possess over 7 years of experience in ASIC verification, demonstrating high proficiency in Verilog, SystemVerilog, and scripting languages, along with significant experience using UVM/OVM methodologies. Familiarity with processor architectures like ARM, MIPS, or RISC-V is required, and experience with bus architectures like AMBA is an asset.

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• SystemVerilog
• UVM
• ASIC Verification
• FPGA Design
• Embedded Software Development
• Verilog
• Hardware Description Languages
• Scripting Languages
• OVM
• ARM Architecture
• MIPS Architecture
• RISC-V Architecture
• Constrained Random Verification
• Assertions
• Functional Coverage
• AXI

• Engineering
• Technology
• Software

Minimum experience

5+ years

Apply by

Sep 13, 2026

Posting language

English

Working hours

40 hours per week