SoC Design Verification Engineer
$106,000 - $184,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 24 May 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 5 November 2026.
About the role
GlobalFoundries is seeking a System-on-Chip Design Verification engineer to verify High-Performance Automotive Microcontrollers across all phases of the verification lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Develop testbenches, testcases, and checkers to exercise and measure design behavior against specified intent.
- Debug differences between simulated behavior of designs and design specifications.
- Contribute to the development of design verification flows and methodology for improved development efficiency.
- Manage verification tasks independently while mentoring junior team members.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including specification and design teams, to resolve bugs.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5-8 years of experience in SoC verification.
- Expertise in writing tests using SystemVerilog, UVM, and C.
- Experience with scripting languages like Python, Tcl/Tk, or Perl.
- Understanding of SOC interconnects and bus standards such as AXI, AHB, and APB.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- Experience with RISC-V, ARM, and/or MIPS CPU architectures.
- Knowledge of register description languages such as IP-XACT, SystemRDL, and UVM RAL.
- Familiarity with Functional Safety standards (ISO 26262) and fault injection methodologies.
- Background with power-aware (UPF) and gate-level simulations (GLS).
- Familiarity with formal verification tools and techniques.
Skills: SystemVerilog, UVM, testbenches, SoC verification, AXI
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This role has been open 135 days — well above the 57-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1317
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Median days open
57 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$184k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | GlobalFoundries | All employers we track in this specialty (1317 roles · 99 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 9 | 1317 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 42 | 3495 · 120 employers |
| Median days open | 38 d | 57 d (−19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $184k |
Skills observed across this category: SystemVerilog, UVM, testbenches, SoC verification, AXI
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 117 open roles · median 49 d
- NVIDIA · 104 open roles · median 71 d
- Apple · 99 open roles · median 9 d
- AMD · 83 open roles · median 65 d
- Synopsys · 73 open roles · median 50 d
- SiFive · 58 open roles · median 63 d
How we counted: 1317 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 99 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 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.