SoC Design Verification Engineer
$159,000 - $239,000 USD yearly
About the role
As a SoC Design Verification Engineer, you will verify Ampere SoCs from architecture through tapeout, delivering subsystem and chip-level functionality. You will collaborate with architecture, design, firmware, and post-silicon teams to establish verification strategies for production-ready silicon.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute SoC and subsystem verification strategies and test plans to meet verification sign-off criteria.
- Architect, design, and implement verification environments, including testbenches, assertions, scoreboards, monitors, and coverage models.
- Create tests, debug failures, and evaluate coverage of the design.
- Collaborate with design, architecture, firmware, and post-silicon teams to resolve pre-silicon and post-silicon issues.
- Participate in design and verification reviews to improve methodology, automation, and reusable verification collateral.
- Support verification activities across simulation and emulation/FPGA platforms.
What you'll need
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science with 5+ years of related experience, or an MS degree with 3+ years.
- 3+ years of experience verifying complex SoCs or processor-based subsystems.
- Knowledge of standard interface protocols including AXI, AHB, APB, and CHI.
- Familiarity with processor-based SoC concepts, including memory maps, SMMU, interrupts, reset/clock sequencing, firmware-driven verification, and boot/power management flows.
- Proficiency in SystemVerilog, UVM/OVM, and high-level programming languages like C/C++.
- Hands-on experience developing verification environments, constrained-random verification, coding assertions, and functional/code coverage.
Nice to have
- Experience with Arm Architecture SoCs or Processor/Media Subsystem Verification.
- Experience in automotive, FuSA, or ISO 26262.
- Experience using agentic or generative AI to automate workflows.
Skills: SystemVerilog, UVM, SoC verification, AXI, testbench
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This role has been open 1 day — well below the 59-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1272
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Median days open
59 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$186k
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| Metric | Ampere Computing | All employers we track in this specialty (1272 roles · 97 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 1272 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 9 | 3367 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 1 d | 59 d (−58 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $186k |
Skills observed across this category: SystemVerilog, UVM, SoC verification, AXI, testbench
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 114 open roles · median 46 d
- NVIDIA · 97 open roles · median 74 d
- AMD · 85 open roles · median 60 d
- Apple · 72 open roles · median 12 d
- Synopsys · 71 open roles · median 47 d
- SiFive · 59 open roles · median 60 d
How we counted: 1272 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 97 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 2 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 — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.