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Senior Performance Verification Engineer - SoC

United States, California, Mountain ViewFull-time2026-10-08 → 2026-11-10
Based in United States

Core

Develop and execute performance verification strategies, test plans, and environments for pre-silicon SoC architectures, aligning with design and firmware teams to ensure power and performance tradeoffs are met.

Role type

Senior IC SoC performance verification engineer

Builds

Pre-silicon SoC verification environments, test benches, checkers, and coverage metrics

Domain

Semiconductor / Computer Architecture

Required skills

Performance verification principles, System Verilog, UVM, C/C++, HDLs, Emulation platforms, Test generation, Debugging, Architecture tradeoffs, CPU architecture, Coherent/non-coherent fabric protocols, ARM architectures

Preferred skills

Mentorship, Growth mindset, Cross-functional collaboration

Technologies

System Verilog, UVM, C, C++, Emulation platforms, ARM

Responsibilities

Develop verification strategy, test plans, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies; Write and implement tests, test generators, test benches, checkers, and coverage; Run tests, correlate results with architecture, and debug failures to root cause; Mentor and coach team members; Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement in architecture, design, and verification plans

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC