Sr. Staff Engineer - Digital Design Verification - Austin, Texas, United States
Originally posted 25 August 2026 by the employer — open 22 days.
About the role
This role involves verifying complex digital designs, including Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) with multiple CPUs, digital signal processors, security hardware, interconnects, and peripheral logic. The focus is on IoT and edge-compute applications.
What you'll do
- Own and execute end-to-end digital verification at block, sub-system, and full-chip (SoC) levels.
- Develop detailed verification plans and implement scalable, reusable UVM-based testbenches using SystemVerilog.
- Perform SoC-level verification using full-chip simulation and regression environments, developing comprehensive test scenarios, stimulus, monitors, and checkers.
- Drive constrained-random and directed testing, including scoreboarding and self-checking mechanisms.
- Develop and maintain C/C++ based verification libraries and tests for SoC-level validation.
- Define, track, and close functional and code coverage goals, utilizing advanced debugging methodologies to isolate and resolve complex design and verification issues.
What you'll need
- 8–12 years of hands-on digital design verification experience.
- Proven track record of multiple tape-outs with silicon functioning to specification.
- Strong experience in block-level, sub-system, and full-chip SoC verification.
- Ability to define and manage verification deliverables, milestones, and schedules.
- Strong experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, and Verilog.
- Experience with C/C++ based verification in SoC environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with processor-based systems (ARM and/or RISC‑V).
- Experience verifying low-power digital architectures and features.
- Experience with Security IPs (Crypto, OTP).
- Experience with DSP and compute-heavy digital subsystems.
- Experience with Edge AI / ML workload enablement.
This role has been open 22 days — well below the 62-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
921
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Median days open
62 d
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Median salary
$183k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Ambiq Micro | All employers we track in this specialty (921 roles · 101 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 921 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 12 | 3007 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 56 d | 62 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $183k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 134 open roles · median 58 d
- AMD · 60 open roles · median 67 d
- Synopsys · 56 open roles · median 31 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 53 open roles · median 64 d
- NVIDIA · 49 open roles · median 50 d
- Analog Devices · 38 open roles · median 75 d
How we counted: 921 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 101 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Sept 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.