MLA IP Design Verification Engineer, Annapurna Labs - Cupertino, California, United States
Originally posted 1 July 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 15 September 2026.
About the role
As a member of the Cloud-Scale Machine Learning Acceleration team at Annapurna Labs, you will be responsible for the design and validation of machine learning hardware in data centers.
What you'll do
- Verify and validate that hardware and software solutions achieve their desired functionality. - Develop and execute multi-faceted verification/validation plans. - Measure and track team progress against customer metrics.
What you'll need
- Experience verifying and validating hardware and software solutions. - Demonstrated background in developing and executing verification/validation plans. - Experience tracking and measuring progress against customer metrics.
Skills: verifying/validating hardware, software solutions, verification/validation plans, customer metrics
This role has been open 112 days — well above the 64-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1233
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Median days open
64 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | Amazon | All employers we track in this specialty (1233 roles · 97 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 12 | 1233 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 21 | 3283 · 116 employers |
| Median days open | 25 d | 64 d (−39 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: verifying/validating hardware, software solutions, verification/validation plans, customer metrics
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 115 open roles · median 41 d
- AMD · 93 open roles · median 51 d
- NVIDIA · 84 open roles · median 62 d
- Synopsys · 66 open roles · median 37 d
- SiFive · 55 open roles · median 79 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 51 open roles · median 121 d
How we counted: 1233 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 97 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 Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.