Design Verification Engineer

Design Verification Engineer

On-site | Mountain View, CA

$250k base + equity

I’m working with an AI compute startup rebuilding the hardware and software stack around extreme compute density.

The team is developing a tightly integrated platform spanning advanced silicon, packaging, firmware, compilers, kernels, and infrastructure. This role will own a major verification domain for its new AI accelerator, from planning through functional closure.

You’ll work closely with hardware and software teams, taking complex silicon from pre-silicon verification through first-silicon bring-up and scale-out.

You’ll work on problems such as:

• Owning end-to-end verification for complex IP, subsystems, or full SoCs
• Developing verification strategies from block level through SoC and emulation
• Building UVM testbenches, test plans, coverage models, and reusable environments
• Debugging complex functional failures and driving coverage closure
• Verifying CPU subsystems, DMA, NoC, die-to-die interfaces, or multi-SoC systems
• Using and developing AI-assisted flows to improve verification productivity
• Partnering with architecture, RTL, firmware, and software teams

Looking for engineers who have:

• 5+ years of hands-on pre-silicon design-verification experience
• End-to-end ownership from verification planning through functional closure
• Strong SystemVerilog and UVM experience
• Experience with block, subsystem, or full-chip verification
• A track record of debugging complex IP or SoC designs
• The ability to interpret specifications from both hardware and software perspectives
• Experience defining clear milestones and delivering against aggressive silicon schedules

Nice to have:

• CPU-subsystem or IP-integration verification
• DMA, NoC, multi-chip, or die-to-die protocol verification
• Palladium, Veloce, or similar emulation experience
• Formal-verification experience
• RISC-V knowledge
• Post-silicon bring-up and debug experience

This is a senior individual-contributor opportunity with ownership of an entire verification domain for a new AI computing platform.