01 · Capability
The scarce disciplines
you can’t hire.
The exact skills your requisitions sit open in: testing, verification, DevOps and firmware. Led by independent testing, kept structurally separate from the team whose work it checks, so no one marks their own homework.
Testing & Certification.
Functional, system and compliance testing; wireless certification including Bluetooth; and independent testing-as-a-service, kept structurally separate from your development organisation, with no shared assumptions and no competition for internal headcount.
Clients increasingly keep verification and testing separate from their development teams: independent eyes, no shared assumptions, no fight for the same people. That makes outsourced testing a strategic decision, not a staffing one. It is our natural opening proposition, and the lowest-friction way to start.
Verification & Validation.
Design verification, validation against requirements, RTL block-level functional verification, regression and coverage closure. This is the core of what we do, and where silicon schedules most often slip.
The verification lead who judges a partner on discipline-specific fluency in the first meeting: named engineers with relevant history, and continuity that augmentation never gave them. We speak the dialect: CMRT-style security testing, QEMU/FPGA automation, RTL across clock domains, post-layout mixed-signal.
DevOps.
CI/CD pipelines for firmware and software, build and release automation, and test-automation frameworks on simulation (QEMU) and FPGA environments, with release packaging and verification built in.
The firmware or QA manager whose pipeline grew organically and breaks weekly, and who cannot hire the niche specialists to fix it. Onboarding measured in weeks, not a quarter of hand-holding.
Security & Reliability.
Security software testing and validation, including root-of-trust products, plus robustness and performance work, and the assurance that protects the product once it is in the field.
Silicon and IP companies where a security-certification requirement arrives late, and a respin traced to an escape is a career event. Independent testing that keeps verification honest.
Customer Engineering.
Hands-on support integrating and sustaining delivered platforms: BSP releases and updates, multimedia pipelines, and OEM product-release support that keeps a delivered platform healthy.
Established semiconductor and systems companies needing sustained platform support alongside their own teams, for example BSP integration and OEM release support for a global semiconductor leader.
The concrete scope of work.
Drawn from live client engagements: the exact terms you search for.
Room is deliberately left for what comes next: AI-assisted verification, model validation and toolchain automation.