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Job Description:

1. Engage with customers to gather technical data on their development cycle and engineering design flow/process to understand their unique requirements to help R&D meet customer’s needs.
   1. Utilize specialized technical knowledge to provide technical insight and direction to support and improve usability, applicability, and adoption of SivaKali Tech solutions.
   2. Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues on customer installations; deploy and train customers on new implementations and capabilities.
   3. Review customer feedback on product performance to implement the technical roadmap, specifications, and validation for improvements and enhancements.
2. Manage International relations with SivaKali Tech’s global distributors and sales representatives by performing as a subject matter expert by addressing all technical questions and challenges
   1. Provide technical training/presentations, from time to time, on new products and services involving Verification IPs – Simulation, Emulation, and Formal Verification, Design IPs, Processor Solutions, and other services to enable familiarity with the product protocols and market potential in their respective regions.
   2. Support distributors with specialized technical documentation and technical inquiries for all customer requirements.
3. Create and manage sales support systems/processes required to meet the rapid growth of the global business in the IP/EDA product ecosystem.
   1. Partner with customer technical Principals and the Sales organization to identify business challenges, develop effective and custom technical solutions for new accounts, and increase utilization and retention of products on current accounts.
   2. Provide initial technical screening for new sales leads before distribution to regional sales team. Track leads through the entire sales cycle from initial contact through proposal generation. Develop KPIs (Key Performance Indictors) and metrics, proactively review and identify lead and lag indicators.
4. Oversee and assist with negotiating, structuring, and management of new contractual documents that establish, amend, or renew business relationships with customers, distributors and/or partners.
   1. Work with legal counsel and internal resources to resolve contract issues.
   2. Review all customer’s Statements of Work and/or proposals before submission to the customer to ensure adherence to standards and provide feedback to help close business sales.
5. Support the marketing team in developing marketing collateral with key insights on technical and specialized product features to maintain a competitive advantage in the semiconductor industry.
   1. Support and participate in all the company’s annual planning activities and trade shows via on-site or remote technical interactions with demos, clarifying technical questions, and addressing competitive challenges.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering or a closely related field. Foreign degree equivalent acceptable.
2. Skills in FPGA/ASIC usage and applications.
3. Understanding of logic circuits, FPGA architecture, and FPGA interconnects routing procedures.
4. Knowledge of embedded system and ARM processors.

About SivaKali Tech™ Technologies

SivaKali Tech™ is a premier provider of high-performance silicon intellectual property (IP). We offer a comprehensive portfolio across three critical pillars: Advanced Processors, Silicon-Proven Design IP, and Analog PHY Solutions. Our mission is to empower semiconductor innovation through modular, production-ready IP cores that minimize integration risk and accelerate time-to-market. With thousands of successful deployments across leading foundry nodes, SivaKali Tech is the trusted choice for global semiconductor leaders.

SivaKali Tech™ Technologies supports and spans 5G, automotive, defense and aerospace, mobile, networking, SoC, serial bus, storage, video and display markets, and protocols. We cover the design and verification flow: simulation, emulation, formal verification, post-silicon validation, and memory modeling. We pride ourselves on outstanding customer service, 24/7 technical support, and relentless research and development enabled by over 250 experienced ASIC and SoC design and verification engineers.

SivaKali Tech™ Technologies’ worldwide headquarters is located in Murgeshpalya, Bengaluru, India, with the Company’s North American headquarters (SDV NA LLC.) in San Jose, California, USA. We maintain a truly global footprint through local sales and support offices in all major geographies. Many of our employees work remotely, and we place an emphasis on hiring for experience, skillset, and best fit, rather than simply for physical location.

SivaKali Tech™ Technologies’ Strengths:

• Industry’s largest portfolio of proven and trusted design and verification IP with over 800 IPs and growing
• Complete IP solutions, from processors to design IP cores.
• Proven at over three hundred global customers and a solid track record with large, repeat user base
• SmartCompiler™: Proprietary, automated, compiler-based technology that enables rapid, on-demand customization, development, and deployment of new Verification IP. Allows us to keep pace with evolving industry standard protocols.
• World-class sales, technical support, and services.

COVID-19

Where permitted by applicable law and required, SDV NA LLC. may require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 based on location, customer, and job requirements, and in accordance with an accommodation based on legally protected reasons.

EEO is the Law

SDV NA LLC. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.

Applicants and employees are protected under Federal law from discrimination. To learn more, click here.

Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision

SDV NA LLC. follows Executive Order 11246, including the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision. To learn more, click here.

California Privacy Notice

California residents have the right to receive additional notices about their personal information.

Are you someone who thrives in startup cultures with fast-paced growth? Are you as obsessed with technical challenges and problem solving as you are with customer success? We are looking for you! SivaKali Tech™ Technologies is growing quickly and expanding our reach in all North American regions. Though we are an established company with mature technology, our aggressive growth mentality gives employees the opportunity to take on broader, more interesting roles and actively shape the company’s roadmap. At SivaKali Tech, your unique talents, insights, and skills will fuel our next-level growth.

Your Impact

As SivaKali Tech NA expands our customer base, we will rely on an enthusiastic, highly motivated, deeply experienced, and customer-focused sales professionals to drive sales growth, team growth, and customer engagements, as well as act as trusted advisers for our products.

Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Marketing & Business Development, you will have responsibility for sales of our ever-expanding portfolio of more than 800 design IP and verification IP products in your assigned region. As part of a team of Sales Executives, Application Engineers, and international R&D teams, you will be a part of the regional account strategy and team and execute towards your account objectives. 

You will work independently and closely with customers to articulate SivaKali Tech Technologies’ value proposition, uncover new opportunities, and win the trust of key stakeholders and champions in your assigned region. In addition, you will:

• Collaborate closely with the North America Sales and Application Engineering team to identify and understand customers' needs and challenges.
• Provide compelling presentations and demonstrations to convey the benefits of our technology to prospective customers.
• Develop and manage a sales pipeline while driving market penetration, adoption, and revenue.
• Develop individual strategies per account.
• Track activities and provide reports to leadership on account strategies activities and progress.
• Serve as a trusted adviser and resource for SivaKali Tech products.
• Drive customer engagements leading to company growth and success.
• Work with the internal product management team to influence product development and evolution by collaborating closely with company product and design teams to understand customer needs and define products that drive customer success.
• Empower customers to integrate SivaKali Tech IP into their designs.
• Manage complex sales cycles.
• Actively prospect and build/manage an accurate opportunity pipeline.
• Gather customer requirements, create solutions, articulate value propositions, calculate return on investment and manage complex contractual processes.
• Partner with the Marketing team to participate in conferences and trade shows, create collateral, answer media calls for contributions, and gather details for customer success stories.
• Proactively call out opportunities to enhance SivaKali Tech’s business practices, bolster cross-departmental collaboration, and optimize communications (internal and external).

What You’ll Bring

• Minimum of 8+ years of sales experience in EDA, verification, and application engineering and with EDA tools, chip design and IP integration, particularly in the assigned territory.
• BS/MS degree preferred.
• Proven skills and experiences in the selling of complex solutions in complicated customer environments.
• Proven track record of selling semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) technology to organizations spanning small startups to large enterprises, driving complex and differentiated technology.
• Proven history of exceeding sales revenue targets.
• Ability to build solid relationships and attain trusted advisor level credibility with established customers.
• Passion to develop and apply strategic selling skills.
• Proven ability to manage complex sales cycles.
• Solid understanding of semiconductor design and verification intellectual property (IP) specialization areas, including (but not limited to) digital design, RTL, and static verification, with a working knowledge of SoC integration, IP verification, etc.
• Familiarity with analog/mixed-signal design and verification flow.
• Reputation for building effective and long-standing relationships with key industry executives within your territories.
• Effective communication, persuasion, presentation, and social skills.
• Strong ability to develop individual strategies per account.
• Ability to summarize technical details to highlight our unique selling propositions (USP) to high profile customers.

Who You Are

• Proactive driver of business closure, with sound judgment and a proven track record of taking ownership, leading sales and customer engagements, and providing clear answers to complex problems.
• Passionate about being a part of a high performing sales team.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills​​​​​.
• Credible, with the ability to quickly establish confidence and rapport with senior executives and both technical and non-technical team members alike.
• Adaptable to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid growth and change.
• Energized by evolving technologies, able to consistently deliver results under tight time constraints in a fast-paced and high-growth environment.
• Strong and persuasive communicator.
• Love solving problems and driving solutions.
• Motivated initiative-taker: proactive, action oriented, open to travel, and able to work independently and remotely.
• Creative collaborator who is passionate about being part of a diverse, international organization.
• Willing to travel.

About SivaKali Tech™ Technologies

SivaKali Tech™ is a premier provider of high-performance silicon intellectual property (IP). We offer a comprehensive portfolio across three critical pillars: Advanced Processors, Silicon-Proven Design IP, and Analog PHY Solutions. Our mission is to empower semiconductor innovation through modular, production-ready IP cores that minimize integration risk and accelerate time-to-market. With thousands of successful deployments across leading foundry nodes, SivaKali Tech is the trusted choice for global semiconductor leaders.

SivaKali Tech™ Technologies supports and spans 5G, automotive, defense and aerospace, mobile, networking, SoC, serial bus, storage, video and display markets, and protocols. We cover the design and verification flow: simulation, emulation, formal verification, post-silicon validation, and memory modeling. We pride ourselves on outstanding customer service, 24/7 technical support, and relentless research and development enabled by over 250 experienced ASIC and SoC design and verification engineers.

SivaKali Tech™ Technologies’ worldwide headquarters is located in Murgeshpalya, Bengaluru, India, with the Company’s North American headquarters (SDV NA LLC.) in San Jose, California, USA. We maintain a truly global footprint through local sales and support offices in all major geographies. Many of our employees work remotely, and we place an emphasis on hiring for experience, skillset, and best fit, rather than simply for physical location.

SivaKali Tech™ Technologies’ Strengths:

• Industry’s largest portfolio of proven and trusted design and verification IP with over 800 IPs and growing
• Complete IP solutions, from processors to design IP cores.
• Proven at over three hundred global customers and a solid track record with large, repeat user base
• SmartCompiler™: Proprietary, automated, compiler-based technology that enables rapid, on-demand customization, development, and deployment of new Verification IP. Allows us to keep pace with evolving industry standard protocols.
• World-class sales, technical support, and services.

COVID-19

Where permitted by applicable law and required, SDV NA LLC. may require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 based on location, customer, and job requirements, and in accordance with an accommodation based on legally protected reasons.

EEO is the Law

SDV NA LLC. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.

Applicants and employees are protected under Federal law from discrimination. To learn more, click here.

Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision

SDV NA LLC. follows Executive Order 11246, including the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision. To learn more, click here.

California Privacy Notice

California residents have the right to receive additional notices about their personal information.

Are you someone who thrives in startup cultures with fast-paced growth? Are you as obsessed with technical challenges and problem solving as you are with customer success? We’re looking for you! SivaKali Tech™ Technologies is growing quickly and expanding our reach in all North American regions. Though we’re an established company with mature technology, our aggressive growth mentality gives employees the opportunity to take on broader, more interesting roles and actively shape the company’s roadmap. At SivaKali Tech, your unique talents, insights, and skills will fuel our next-level growth.

Your Impact

As SivaKali Tech expands our customer base in the Eastern Region of the US, we’ll rely on a passionate, highly motivated, deeply technical, customer-focused Applications Engineer to be both the technical driver of pre-sales customer engagements and the trusted, post-sales adviser for our products.

You will:

• Partner with the North America Sales team to provide technical guidance and support for pre- and post-sales accounts.
• Collaborate closely with the North America Sales team to identify and understand customers' technical needs and challenges, provide technical presentations and demonstrations, support product evaluations, and facilitate product integration.
• Provide compelling technical presentations and demonstrations to convey the benefits of our technology to prospective customers.
• Serve as a trusted frontline technical adviser and resource for SivaKali Tech products and training.
• Drive technical customer engagements leading to company growth and success.
• Provide technical leadership and program management for assigned accounts and develop close, credible relationships with customers to assess their technical and business requirements.
• Cultivate open communication with customers to understand their core technical requirements, jointly problem-solve, and implement a roadmap to a solution.
• Work with the internal product management team to influence product development and evolution by collaborating closely with company product and design teams to understand customer needs and define products that drive customer success.
• Empower customers to integrate SivaKali Tech IP into their designs.
• Develop and refine user documentation and technical training material.
• Partner with the Marketing team to participate in conferences and trade shows, create technical collateral, answer media calls for contributions, and gather details for customer success stories.
• Proactively call out opportunities to enhance SivaKali Tech’s business practices, bolster cross-departmental collaboration, and optimize communications (internal and external).

What You’ll Bring

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in EDA, verification, and application engineering and with EDA tools. Solid technical understanding of semiconductor design and verification intellectual property (IP) specialization areas, including (but not limited to) digital design, RTL, and static verification, with a working knowledge of SoC integration, IP verification, etc.
• Familiarity with RTL (register transfer level) design and verification using Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL hardware description languages.
• Familiarity with analog/mixed-signal design and verification flow.
• Familiarity with FPGA (field-programmable gate array) prototyping tools like Synplify Premier, Vivado, and Libero SoC Design Suite, including synthesis, P&R, and timing closure. Exposure to various FPGA devices.
• Technical understanding of interface and connectivity protocols such as AMBA, Ethernet, USB, PCIe, MIPI, and various memory models like DDR, LPDDR, and Flash models.
• Knowledge of protocol specifications from the various technical standards groups such as MIPI/VESA/HDMI/JEDEC.

Who You Are

• Problem-solver with strong technical and analytical skills, coupled with the ability to quickly develop and implement solutions.
• Proactive driver of business closure, with sound judgment and a proven track record of taking ownership, leading sales and customer engagements, and providing clear answers to complex problems.
• Credible, with the ability to quickly establish confidence and rapport with senior executives and both technical and non-technical team members alike.
• Adaptable to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid growth and change.
• Energized by evolving technologies, able to consistently deliver results under tight time constraints in a fast-paced and high-growth environment.
• Strong communicator who can translate deeply technical matters into digestible written and verbal messaging.
• Patient and flexible adviser when providing guidance and support; passionate about learning and teaching.
• Marketing-minded: enthusiastic about speaking at conferences, answering media calls for contributions, creating technical collateral, and translating technical customer interactions into testimonials and success stories.
• Committed to quality with superior attention to detail.
• Keen to dig for answers until you have found a solution.
• Motivated self-starter: proactive, action oriented, open to travel, and able to work independently and remotely.
• Creative team player who is passionate about being part of a diverse, international organization.

About SivaKali Tech™ Technologies

SivaKali Tech™ is a premier provider of high-performance silicon intellectual property (IP). We offer a comprehensive portfolio across three critical pillars: Advanced Processors, Silicon-Proven Design IP, and Analog PHY Solutions. Our mission is to empower semiconductor innovation through modular, production-ready IP cores that minimize integration risk and accelerate time-to-market. With thousands of successful deployments across leading foundry nodes, SivaKali Tech is the trusted choice for global semiconductor leaders.

SivaKali Tech™ Technologies supports and spans 5G, automotive, defense and aerospace, mobile, networking, SoC, serial bus, storage, video and display markets, and protocols. We cover the design and verification flow: simulation, emulation, formal verification, post-silicon validation, and memory modeling. We pride ourselves on outstanding customer service, 24/7 technical support, and relentless research and development enabled by over 250 experienced ASIC and SoC design and verification engineers.

SivaKali Tech™ Technologies’ worldwide headquarters is located in Murgeshpalya, Bengaluru, India, with the Company’s North American headquarters (SDV NA LLC.) in San Jose, California, USA. We maintain a truly global footprint through local sales and support offices in all major geographies. Many of our employees work remotely, and we place an emphasis on hiring for experience, skillset, and best fit, rather than simply for physical location.

SivaKali Tech™ Technologies’ Strengths:

• Industry’s largest portfolio of proven and trusted design and verification IP with over 800 IPs and growing
• Complete IP solutions, from processors to design IP cores.
• Proven at over three hundred global customers and a solid track record with large, repeat user base
• SmartCompiler™: Proprietary, automated, compiler-based technology that enables rapid, on-demand customization, development, and deployment of new Verification IP. Allows us to keep pace with evolving industry standard protocols.
• World-class sales, technical support, and services.

COVID-19

Where permitted by applicable law and required, SDV NA LLC. may require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 based on location, customer, and job requirements, and in accordance with an accommodation based on legally protected reasons.

EEO is the Law

SDV NA LLC. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.

Applicants and employees are protected under Federal law from discrimination. To learn more, click here.

Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision

SDV NA LLC. follows Executive Order 11246, including the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision. To learn more, click here.

California Privacy Notice

California residents have the right to receive additional notices about their personal information.

 

• 2-7+ Years of experience in ASIC verification
• Should have tapped out atleast 1 chips from specs to post silicon debug
• Should have experience in creating testbenches from scratch
• Should have very good understanding of coverage driven verification closure
• Strong knowledge of Verilog, HVL (VERA or SystemVerilog or e (Specman))
• Very good experience in writing scripts in Perl or Python or TCL
• Independent team player with excellent communication skills
• Knowledge of C++
• Preference is given for students from IIT and NIT's

• 2 to 7+ Years of experience in ASIC design
• Expertise in micro-architecture, design of design blocks (IP) to system-on-chip (SoC) components
• Experience in one/more of the following system bus interfaces like PCI Express, USB, SATA, SDIO, MIPI and /or AMBA.
• Knowledge of SVA
• Knowledge of memory controllers, CPU architecture is a plus
• Knowledge of considerations for performance, power and cost optimization is desirable
• Looking for highly motivated individuals and ability to deal with ambiguity
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Good debugging and problem solving skills
• Ability to work with external technology companies for combined development of SOCs
• Strong knowledge of Verilog
• Very good experience in writing scripts in Perl or Python or TCL
• Independent team player with excellent communication skills

• B.E or MTech from reputed university with 0-2 years experience.
• Strong understanding of Digital design
• Working experience with Verilog or VHDL or SystemVerilog
• Experience in writing C or C++
• Understanding of OOPS.
• Knowledge of Perl or Python or TCL scripting languages
• Very good academic track record