Senior Staff Pre Silicon Verification Engineer - CA, San Jose, United States
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
DRAM Memory Controller IPs
About the role
This role involves providing technical leadership and expertise in the verification of DRAM Memory Controller IPs, high-speed Crypto, and Network-on-Chip (NoC). You will be responsible for architecting, developing, and utilizing simulation and/or formal-based verification environments at both block and SoC-level to achieve first-pass silicon success.
What you'll do
- Lead the verification of high-speed Crypto, Network-on-Chip (NoC), DRAM Memory controller (DDR5, LPDDR6, HBM4) designs.
- Architect, develop, and use simulation and/or formal-based verification environments at IP and SoC-level.
- Lead and manage verification teams, including planning, execution, tracking, verification closure, and delivery to programs.
- Develop and execute comprehensive verification plans, including testbenches and test cases.
- Utilize advanced verification methodologies, including UVM, formal verification, and assertion-based verification.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers.
What you'll need
- Hands-on experience with verification of memory controllers such as DDR, LPDDR, and HBM.
- Strong understanding of current memory controller protocols and calibration (DDR3/4/5, LPDDR4/5/6, HBM2/3/4), board skew and jitter modeling.
- Proven track record in technical leadership of teams with 5+ engineers, including planning, execution, tracking, verification closure, and delivery to programs.
- Experience with development of UVM and System Verilog test benches and usage of simulation tools/debug environments such as Synopsys VCS or Cadence Xcelium.
- Strong understanding of verification techniques, including assertion and metric-driven verification.
- BS with 8+ years or MS with 6+ years or PhD with 3+ years in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
Nice to have
- Experience as a verification architect, establishing the verification methodology, tools and infrastructure for high-performance IP and/or VLSI designs.
- Familiarity with verification management tools and understanding of database management, particularly as it pertains to regression management.
- Experience with formal property checking tools such as VC Formal (Synopsys), JasperGold (Cadence), and Questa Formal (Mentor).
- Experience with gate-level simulation, power-aware verification.
- Experience with silicon debug at the tester and board level.
Skills: DRAM Memory Controller IPs, UVM, System Verilog, formal verification, testbenches
This role has been open 21 days — well below the 64-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1187
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Median days open
64 d
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Median salary
$187k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (1187 roles · 95 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 99 | 1187 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 259 | 3167 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 54 d | 64 d (−10 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $187k |
Skills observed across this category: DRAM Memory Controller IPs, UVM, System Verilog, formal verification, testbenches
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 103 open roles · median 42 d
- AMD (this employer) · 99 open roles · median 54 d
- NVIDIA · 79 open roles · median 61 d
- Synopsys · 61 open roles · median 30 d
- SiFive · 54 open roles · median 71 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 51 open roles · median 113 d
How we counted: 1187 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 95 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.