Intern - Design Verification Infrastructure Engineer - Platform - United States
Originally posted 1 August 2026 by the employer.
Develop and maintain Verification Platform technologies and functionality in Chisel and CIRCT.
About the role
This intern role in the Design Verification Infrastructure team involves developing and maintaining the Verification Platform technologies used across SiFive. You will collaborate with the Platform Technologies team that developed Chisel and CIRCT to bring new functionality to Design Verification.
What you'll do
- Architect, develop, and maintain the Verification Platform to provide a common infrastructure for Design Verification and other verification and validation activities.
- Develop new functionality in Chisel and CIRCT to support Verification Platform libraries and tools.
- Develop Verification Platform libraries for expressing verification intent in Scala with Chisel, including test harnesses, stimulus, scoreboards, and other generators.
- Develop Verification Platform libraries for querying design intent in Python from verification tools, including from specs, generated metadata, and other sources.
- Develop Verification Platform tools and methodologies to support end-to-end flows used by Design Verification other verification and validation teams.
- Educate the Design Verification and other verification and validation teams on best practices and how to achieve them with the Verification Platform.
What you'll need
- Software engineering experience in at least one compiled language and one scripting language.
- Understanding of modern software engineering practices.
- Experience deploying software systems into production environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with Chisel, CIRCT, and/or MLIR.
- History working on systems software like compilers, databases, and/or operating systems.
- Understanding of EDA tools and flows for Design Verification.
Skills: Design Verification Infrastructure, Verification Platform, Chisel, CIRCT, EDA tools
This role has been open 82 days — well above the 72-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools
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Open roles in category
683
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Median days open
72 d
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Median salary
$195k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | SiFive | All employers we track in this specialty (683 roles · 75 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 683 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 18 | 1484 · 110 employers |
| Median days open | 66 d | 72 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Skills observed across this category: Design Verification Infrastructure, Verification Platform, Chisel, CIRCT, EDA tools
Who's hiring in this category
- Cadence Design Systems · 155 open roles · median 149 d
- Synopsys · 62 open roles · median 40 d
- Micron Technology · 46 open roles · median 49 d
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- GlobalFoundries · 36 open roles · median 28 d
- Keysight Technologies · 34 open roles · median 76 d
How we counted: 683 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 75 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 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 Physical Implementation family row. Figures refresh nightly.