Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves defining and executing comprehensive performance test plans across the full verification stack, from cycle-accurate performance models to silicon bringup, to ensure product performance.
What you'll do
- Partner with System Architecture and Design/Verification teams to define comprehensive performance test plans.
- Drive full-chip SoC performance verification across all real engines and subsystems using realistic concurrent workloads.
- Execute performance test plans across cycle-accurate performance models, RTL simulation, emulation platforms, and silicon.
- Debug performance failures through waveform analysis, signal-level queries, trace analysis, and system-level profiling.
- Influence architecture and microarchitecture decisions by surfacing performance data and trade-off analysis.
- Develop and maintain performance workloads, test suites, infrastructure, and automated regression flows.
- Drive methodology improvements to reduce verification turnaround time and enable earlier performance insight.
What you'll need
- B.E./B.Tech or M.S./M.Tech (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in SoC or system-level architecture, performance verification, or hardware validation.
- Strong understanding of SoC architecture including GPU and CPU pipelines, memory subsystem design (caches, DRAM controllers, coherency), Network-on-Chip (NoC)/fabric architecture, and high-speed IO interfaces.
- Hands-on experience with RTL simulation and debug, including waveform-based debug and signal-level querying.
- Solid programming skills in Python and C/C++; scripting proficiency in Bash/Python for automation and analysis.
- Strong debugging, data analysis, and statistical analysis skills.
- Experience with or exposure to pre-silicon performance analysis methodologies, including performance models, cycle-approximate simulators, or emulation platforms.
Skills: performance verification, RTL simulation, emulation platforms, silicon bringup, waveform analysis, SoC architecture
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This role has been open 43 days — well below the 57-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1317
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Median days open
57 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$184k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (1317 roles · 99 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 104 | 1317 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 273 | 3497 · 120 employers |
| Median days open | 72 d | 57 d (+15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $184k |
Skills observed across this category: performance verification, RTL simulation, emulation platforms, silicon bringup, waveform analysis, SoC architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 117 open roles · median 49 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 104 open roles · median 71 d
- Apple · 99 open roles · median 9 d
- AMD · 83 open roles · median 65 d
- Synopsys · 73 open roles · median 50 d
- SiFive · 58 open roles · median 63 d
How we counted: 1317 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 99 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.