CareerPlan

Design Verification Engineer, New Grad

Austin, TXFull-time$120k–$150k2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design Verification Engineer for SambaNova's RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) chip, building SystemVerilog and UVM environments to verify chip-level control, initialization, sequencing, and state transitions.

Role type

New Grad Design Verification Engineer (IC)

Builds

SystemVerilog and UVM testbenches, sequences, checkers, assertions, and functional coverage for AI inference chips

Domain

Semiconductor / AI Infrastructure / Hardware Verification

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

SystemVerilog, UVM, constrained-random verification, functional coverage, assertions, clock domain crossing, Python scripting, digital design, computer architecture

Preferred skills

AI tools for verification, internship in design verification

Technologies

SystemVerilog, UVM, Python, Perl, TCL, shell

Responsibilities

Write and execute verification plans for chip-level control and initialization features; Build SystemVerilog and UVM testbench components including sequences, checkers, and assertions; Write directed and constrained-random tests to find corner cases; Debug simulation and regression failures with RTL designers; Analyze functional and code coverage and close coverage gaps

Seniority

New Grad, hands-on IC