Senior FPGA Verification Engineer

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Markon’s partner company is looking for an experienced FPGA Verification Engineer to join our classified hardware development team, helping to deliver next-generation, high-assurance digital systems. In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing and executing comprehensive verification strategies that ensure our FPGA designs meet the highest standards of reliability and security.

• Develop and implement UVM-based verification environments for complex FPGA designs
• Create and execute formal verification test plans and perform formal property verification and equivalence checking
• Build automated test frameworks to support coverage-driven and regression testing
• Apply formal methods to validate security-critical design blocks
• Collaborate closely with RTL design engineers to ensure robust and high-quality designs
• Contribute to process improvements and best practices for formal and functional verification

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years of FPGA or ASIC verification experience
• Expertise in SystemVerilog, UVM, and assertion-based verification
• Hands-on experience with formal verification tools (e.g., Cadence JasperGold or similar)
• Strong understanding of coverage-driven verification methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of security protocols and formal security proofs
• Proficiency with SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA)
• Background in mathematical logic and proof systems
• Experience working on classified or high-assurance hardware projects

USD $200,000.00 - USD $250,000.00 /Yr.

The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.