CPU Verification Engineer, Director
$252,800 - $379,200 USD yearly
Originally posted 24 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading the development and verification of high-performance and low-power CPU designs. It specifically focuses on multi-core CPU operations for Qualcomm Business Units.
What you'll do
- Direct and drive the development and verification of high-performance and low-power CPU designs leveraging knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and/or physical design.
- Oversee the identification and solutions of highly complex problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements, specifications, and trade-offs for product goals.
- Direct and communicate guidelines for the evaluation of the design process from architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design and verification, to post-silicon validation.
- Communicate guidelines across teams for writing detailed technical documentation, including feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, and verification test plans.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
- 4 years in a technical leadership role.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 16 years of work experience with high-performance microprocessor design.
- 16 years of work experience with high level programming (e.g., C, C ).
- 16 years of work experience with scripting language programming (e.g., Perl, Python).
- 16 years of work experience with simulators and/or waveform debugging tools (e.g., Verilog, VHDL).
- 16 years of work experience with industry standard tools for synthesis place and/or route and design verification.
- 16 years of work experience with simulation, emulation, formal verification, or silicon validation.
- 16 years of experience in creating functional models, checkers, test plans, and/or test generation.
- 3 years experience working in a large matrixed organization.
- 2 years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership.
- 2 years working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
Skills: CPU designs, pre-silicon design and verification, simulation, emulation, formal verification, test plans
This role has been open 16 days — well below the 64-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1189
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Median days open
64 d
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Median salary
$187k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (1189 roles · 95 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 105 | 1189 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 385 | 3166 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 44 d | 64 d (−20 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $187k |
Skills observed across this category: CPU designs, pre-silicon design and verification, simulation, emulation, formal verification, test plans
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 106 open roles · median 43 d
- AMD · 103 open roles · median 50 d
- NVIDIA · 74 open roles · median 64 d
- Synopsys · 61 open roles · median 26 d
- SiFive · 54 open roles · median 67 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 51 open roles · median 109 d
How we counted: 1189 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 95 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.