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Principal Design Verification Engineer

United States, California, Mountain View💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Creating complex verification environments and tests for pre-silicon functional verification at block, chip, and system levels, plus post-silicon validation.

Role type

Principal Design Verification Engineer (IC/SoC)

Builds

Silicon IP, SoCs, and embedded systems

Domain

Semiconductor hardware design and verification

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

System Verilog, UVM, Verilog, VHDL, C/C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, scoreboards, sequences, constraints, assertions, functional coverage, testbench development, simulation, emulation, FPGA, hardware emulation, firmware development, secure boot flow, synthesizable code, hardware design for embedded systems, CPU or Graphics core verification, chip and computer architecture knowledge

Preferred skills

Agile development methodologies, code reviews, sprint planning, frequent deployment, Makefiles, scripts for scalable verification

Responsibilities

Create and drive test-plans and test development to provide complete features coverage; Triage and debug testbench, simulation, and emulation fails; Develop verification components like scoreboards, sequences, constraints, assertions and functional coverage; Interact with architects and design engineers to create verification plans covering strategy, test environments & tests, and verification requirements for IP/SS/SOC level verification; Develop and implement technical solutions to complex quality and design challenges; Creation of complex verification environments and tests, pre-silicon functional verification at the block, chip and system level, reference modeling and post-silicon validation

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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