SoC Design Verification Lead - Portland, Oregon, United States
About the role
The SoC Design Verification Lead owns end-to-end functional and performance validation of a chiplet-based SoC platform. This hands-on technical leadership role oversees verification strategy across CPU subsystems, coherent interconnect, memory interfaces, and system-level integration.
What you'll do
- Define verification plans and execute verification strategy across simulation and emulation/FPGA prototyping platforms. - Own functional and performance validation spanning CPU subsystems, coherent interconnect, memory interfaces, and system-level integration. - Build and lead a design verification team while driving silicon readiness to satisfy functional, performance, and compliance requirements. - Collaborate closely with architecture, design, firmware, and software teams, as well as external IP vendors.
What you'll need
- Experience defining and executing verification strategy for complex SoC platforms. - Hands-on technical leadership experience across simulation and emulation/FPGA prototyping environments. - Background verifying CPU subsystems, coherent interconnect, and memory interfaces. - Experience delivering functional validation, performance validation, and system-level integration toward silicon readiness.
Skills: functional validation, performance validation, chiplet-based SoC, verification strategy, simulation, emulation
This role has been open 196 days — well above the 67-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1268
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Median days open
67 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | Ahead Computing | All employers we track in this specialty (1268 roles · 96 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 1268 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 13 | 3359 · 116 employers |
| Median days open | 196 d | 67 d (+129 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: functional validation, performance validation, chiplet-based SoC, verification strategy, simulation, emulation
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 120 open roles · median 46 d
- NVIDIA · 93 open roles · median 66 d
- AMD · 92 open roles · median 56 d
- Synopsys · 67 open roles · median 42 d
- SiFive · 56 open roles · median 80 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 50 open roles · median 132 d
How we counted: 1268 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 96 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 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.