I want to know if there is anyone who has changed job roles from being a verification engineer to an architect. I know I have a lot of questions so I listed them out here. Any answers I can get would be really helpful. Questions I have: 1. At what experience level did you make the change? 2. Did you always work in verification since graduation? If not what were your different roles and for how long? 3. What skills did you already have and what skills did you have to learn afresh or atleast brush up on? 4. What skills from being a verification engineer helped? 5. How did you feel about the change in role in terms of work satisfaction and impact of what you do? 6. How did your pay change? 7. How did the promotions or scaling up the ladder part of your career change with this? 8. How did the work load and your work life balance change? 9. What company did you make this change in? 10. How easy/difficult is this change? What did you have to do be successful with the switch? Thank you!
To be a successful architect coming from your background, you need to spend a few years doing hands on design.
never seen a DV engineer becomes a Hw architect. nearly impossible given the background. Majority hw architects started as RTL designer (with some knowledge and/or hand-on of PD and performance modelling)
It’s rare but definitely possible. I know a handful of people who have done it. In each case they were one of the go-to individuals for issues covering broad swaths of the system. Being hands-on with the hardware, they had more practical knowledge of how some pieces of the design worked than the people who designed it. The key architects also knew them well after multiple years of working together. Some finally moved when unique opportunities opened up in the architecture orgs. Others were moved there to keep them from leaving the company. However they made the switch, the ones I’ve worked with who used to work in validation are some of the best I’ve seen because of their breadth and because only the truly great ones are allowed to follow that path.
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if you just have DV experience, its impossible... Do you know Power Performance Area trade-off
I have the basic theoretical knowledge from my masters. I have never used them at work. I believe designers do. Are you saying that it is truly impossible?
most likely, you have to start from RTL design to gain real experience