CPU Design Verification Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 26 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role focuses on the design verification of CPUs, translating new CPU features and microarchitectural designs into effective verification plans across client, server, and data center products.
What you'll do
- Develop verification plans for new CPU features and microarchitectural implementations. - Analyze register-transfer level designs to understand functionality, interactions, and verification requirements. - Create and maintain functional and performance verification tests. - Develop, enhance, and debug verification environments and testbench components. - Perform coverage analysis, identify verification gaps, and drive assigned verification areas through design closure. - Collaborate with CPU design, verification, testbench, and hardware emulation teams.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. - Experience with CPU design verification and modern verification methodologies. - Understanding of CPU architecture and microarchitecture, including hardware implementation and interactions between CPU blocks. - Experience analyzing register-transfer level designs and debugging complex verification failures. - Experience with SystemVerilog and Universal Verification Methodology environments. - Experience programming in C or C++.
Nice to have
- Experience with functional coverage, code coverage, and verification closure. - Familiarity with verification testbench development and infrastructure. - Familiarity with hardware emulation. - Knowledge of formal verification techniques. - Experience applying artificial intelligence tools or workflows to engineering activities.
Skills: CPU verification, SystemVerilog, UVM, RTL, coverage analysis
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 66-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1254
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Median days open
66 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (1254 roles · 96 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 92 | 1254 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 251 | 3345 · 116 employers |
| Median days open | 56 d | 66 d (−10 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: CPU verification, SystemVerilog, UVM, RTL, coverage analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 118 open roles · median 45 d
- AMD (this employer) · 92 open roles · median 55 d
- NVIDIA · 91 open roles · median 65 d
- Synopsys · 65 open roles · median 41 d
- SiFive · 55 open roles · median 83 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 52 open roles · median 125 d
How we counted: 1254 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 96 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 26 Oct 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.