Senior SoC Verification Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States
$161,500 - $218,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 26 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Arm's Solution Engineering team is seeking an SoC verification engineer in Austin to verify silicon demonstrators based on Arm compute subsystem solutions. The role focuses on developing silicon test chips targeting mobile, infrastructure, and automotive markets using 3nm process nodes and 3D packaging technologies.
What you'll do
- Review architecture and design specifications with the project team to build functional verification strategies. - Craft test plans, develop SystemVerilog/Verilog testbenches and tests, and debug test failures and issues. - Conduct SoC integration verification, scenario verification, and performance verification for PCIe/CXL and DDRx/LPDDRx in SoC RTL. - Contribute to developing and improving the verification methodologies used by the engineering team. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams on design microarchitecture, verification methodologies, and system performance. - Guide and support junior members of the team and partner with Project Management on schedules and activities.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field. - 5+ years of experience working in design or verification of compute subsystems or SoCs. - Solid understanding of digital hardware design and Verilog HDL. - Demonstrated experience in verification strategies for SoC development, including software-based techniques. - Experience verifying subsystems for PCIe/CXL, DDRx/LPDDRx, or HBM. - Experience verifying RTL for SoC projects and creating/tracking test plans. - Low-level programming experience including C and Assembler.
Nice to have
- Experience with Arm-based designs and/or ARM System Architectures. - Experience with SystemVerilog and verification methodologies such as UVM, OVM, or e. - Experience with formal verification techniques and clock domain crossing verification. - Experience with Perl, Python, or other scripting languages. - Knowledge of power aware verification and porting peripheral driver software. - Experience with development and deployment of complex Arm SoCs on emulation platforms alongside hands-on testbench development.
Skills: SystemVerilog, SoC Verification, PCIe, CXL, DDR, Testbenches
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 64-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1277
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Median days open
64 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | Arm Holdings | All employers we track in this specialty (1277 roles · 96 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 49 | 1277 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 118 | 3384 · 117 employers |
| Median days open | 78 d | 64 d (+14 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: SystemVerilog, SoC Verification, PCIe, CXL, DDR, Testbenches
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 112 open roles · median 42 d
- AMD · 92 open roles · median 57 d
- NVIDIA · 91 open roles · median 67 d
- Synopsys · 73 open roles · median 42 d
- SiFive · 56 open roles · median 81 d
- Apple · 55 open roles · median 8 d
How we counted: 1277 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 96 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 28 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.