Functional Verification Engineers

I enjoy the work-life balance that Infineon offers, as well as working in a multi-cultural environment focused on high-frequency technology.

I am responsible for ensuring the performance and capability of our products, delivering precise and measurable results for our products, and maintaining the true face of our product from a component verification point of view.

Among other things, I was involved in the development of well-known smartphones, smart TVs and other smart devices.

My job is extremely versatile. I work in an international team where each person assesses every topic from a different perspective and this makes the results more valuable. It is exciting to be the first to receive hardware and give very early feedback to stakeholders and technical leaders about their integrated circuits (ICs).

I particularly enjoy striving to achieve state-of-the-art measurement results, working with very high frequencies (up to 120 GHz), and dealing with very sensitive equipment and probe tips.

Judging the technology performance though our lab results.

I am always fascinated to learn about new cultures and nations.

I really appreciate the collaborative, mutually supportive team spirit at Infineon and consider lots of my colleagues to be real friends.

Ensuring that the power management system of the AURIX™ microcontroller is working as expected by identifying, analyzing, and eliminating design bugs in pre-silicon verification. 

I work as a verification lead for the power management system in the new AURIX™ microcontroller product family. This IP is the heart of the AURIX™ and it interacts with the complete chip. Therefore my job calls for a solid system understanding. We also have to adapt quickly to late requirement changes.

Contribution to the development of cutting-edge automotive microcontrollers. Moment when the chip comes out of the fab and works. 

Dealing with the increasing complexity of designs and adherence to the project schedule. 

I would advise my younger self to move earlier to the beautiful area around Villach in Carinthia, southern Austria.

There are many things that make Infineon special. If I had to choose a few, then I would have to say:

(a) Work-life balance (b) Appreciation of its people and (c) Leadership and communication.

All these ingredients put together make Infineon a great place to work.

As Senior Manager, managing and working with the WLAN design validation engineering team in ICW, I engage with a group of highly motivated engineers – they are boisterous and full of energy, yet empathetic and compassionate at the same time.

Since multiple projects run in parallel, co-ordination among engineers, task prioritization, clarity about work, and balancing task distribution are crucial. With enormous interdependencies, I need to ensure that execution is rolling without unbalancing predictability. Validation and debugging must run hand-in-hand to ensure we meet critical milestones and, at the same time, keep the learning curve for team members moving upwards.

Wi-Fi Bluetooth® combo products (chipsets and modules) validated for production release – for example 43012, 5459x and Hatchet-2.

The highlights certainly are ‘challenges’ and ‘learning’, ‘team spirit’ in success and in failure, and viewing mistakes as opportunities.

With evolving and changing dynamics, the challenge would be to keep the team motivated all the time.

Without any doubt or hesitation, I can say that it is my team. The connection we establish professionally and personally, the mentoring we receive for both work and life, and the support we experience in success and in failure are truly unique.

People first leadership – emphasizing that our people are the key to success and practicing it at all levels.

• Leading and driving IP verification and methodology activities to success
• Ensuring that the team has ambitious and motivating targets to achieve in line with the vision and mission statements of the organization
• Empowering the team through coaching and mentoring
• Creating a progressive and enjoyable work culture within the team

• Taped out several automotive ASIC designs to first-time-right on silicon
• Development of software scripting tools to automate generation of required verification infrastructure to accelerate the verification process
• Improvements to the existing verification flows to improve overall efficiency

As an ASIC Verification Engineer, I am responsible for fixing defects in the design and having first-time-right on silicon. I take great pride in seeing that happen. As a Team Lead, I have ramped up a new design verification team, onboarded them into a variety of projects; all candidates received excellent feedback for their contributions.

Time-to-market and quality are our key to competitiveness. Given that design verification is the gating process for silicon, the biggest challenge is to keep the turnaround time for verification as short as possible despite rapid growth in design complexity.

My longing to make a significant positive difference to the lives of people around me inspires me every day.

The atmosphere and collaboration with peers.

Verifying Digital Intellectual Property (IP) by writing testbenches and verifying testbench quality.

Chips, such as Traveo, used primarily in the automotive market, such as for car heads-up displays, infotainment systems, etc.

Collaborating with engineers from many different areas, such as design, verification architecture and software, in order to deliver a complex quality product.

Thoroughly verify a complex design and the testbench around it, while meeting time constraints / deadlines.

Try to make more mistakes.