Senior Staff Design Verification Engineer
Originally posted 10 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role provides technical leadership for the verification of memory interface and data buffer products, including DDR6 and future generations, for data center, AI, and cloud computing applications.
What you'll do
- Define and drive verification strategies, methodologies, test plans, and coverage approaches for complex designs and features at the block and system level.
- Lead the development, optimization, and debugging of SystemVerilog and UVM verification environments and testbenches.
- Drive verification execution, functional coverage, checkers, test development, debugging, and coverage closure.
- Make independent technical decisions regarding verification methods, techniques, priorities, and root-cause solutions.
- Work closely with design engineers to ensure designs meet functional and performance requirements and remain verifiable.
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and review leadership to verification engineers across projects.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
- 10+ years of related experience in semiconductor design verification, including technical leadership of complex verification efforts.
- Advanced proficiency with SystemVerilog and extensive hands-on experience with UVM (Universal Verification Methodology).
- Demonstrated experience defining verification strategies and developing verification plans from product and design specifications.
- Strong experience with functional verification, coverage, checkers, test development, debugging, and coverage closure.
Nice to have
- Experience with DDR4, DDR5, memory interfaces, data buffers, or other high-speed memory technologies.
- Experience leading verification efforts across multiple blocks, features, or engineering groups.
- Experience developing verification methodologies or best practices with applicability beyond an individual project.
Skills: SystemVerilog, UVM, functional coverage, testbenches, coverage closure
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First seen in our index 3 days ago, well below the 59-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1412
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Median days since first seen
59 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$185k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (1412 roles · 101 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 47 | 1412 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 96 | 3617 · 122 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 22 d | 59 d (+37 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: SystemVerilog, UVM, functional coverage, testbenches, coverage closure
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 138 open roles · median 52 d
- NVIDIA · 109 open roles · median 74 d
- Apple · 107 open roles · median 17 d
- Synopsys · 90 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD · 81 open roles · median 65 d
- SiFive · 57 open roles · median 72 d
How we counted: 1412 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 101 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.