Staff Design Verification Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
$225,000 - $270,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 12 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves ensuring the quality of design for the world's largest AI chip, which is 56 times larger than GPUs.
What you'll do
- Work with architects, designers, post silicon, and software engineers to ensure high-quality silicon.
- Develop and implement verification strategies, detailed tests, and coverage plans based on micro-architecture.
- Create verification methodologies and reusable environments, including stimulus, checkers, assertions, and coverage.
- Implement tests, manage regressions, gather coverage, and debug test failures.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including architecture, RTL design, physical design, firmware, and validation.
- Analyze and debug complex issues across simulation, emulation, and silicon bring-up phases.
What you'll need
- Deep knowledge of SystemVerilog testbench, DPI, and UVM.
- Excellent programming skills and knowledge of software engineering practices including object-oriented design.
- Experience developing scalable and portable testbenches and components.
- Experience with verification methodologies and tools such as simulators, waveform viewers, build and run automation, coverage collection, and gate level simulations.
- Proficient in scripting languages such as Python or Perl.
- 10+ years of Design Verification experience.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of pipelined processor architecture.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
- 10+ years of hands-on Design Verification experience.
This role has been open 66 days — slightly above the 64-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1205
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Median days open
64 d
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Median salary
$187k
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| Metric | Cerebras | All employers we track in this specialty (1205 roles · 97 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 1205 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 6 | 3202 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 83 d | 64 d (+19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $187k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 110 open roles · median 38 d
- AMD · 96 open roles · median 51 d
- NVIDIA · 86 open roles · median 58 d
- Synopsys · 64 open roles · median 32 d
- SiFive · 55 open roles · median 74 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 50 open roles · median 116 d
How we counted: 1205 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 97 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 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.