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Director of ASIC Design Verification

SambaNova · San Jose, California, United States · San Jose, CA

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Infrastructureonsitedirector$270k–$340k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own end-to-end verification for next-generation RDU AI chips to tape-out.
  • Verify dataflow architecture delivering strong decode for agentic workloads.
  • Carry ownership into lab for first-silicon validation and bring-up debug.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • 95% employee medical premium coverage
  • 77% dependent medical premium coverage
  • HSA with employer contribution
  • Dental and vision insurance
  • Short/long-term disability insurance
  • Basic life, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
  • FSA options including Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care
  • Headspace subscription
  • Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms
  • One Medical membership
  • Employee Assistance Program counseling services

Ideal candidate

Deep verification leader combining hands-on technical authority with team leadership. You hold strong methodology opinions, thrive on the hardest debug, and enjoy coaching principal engineers to deliver quality silicon on schedule.

Requirements

  • Own pre-silicon functional and performance verification for ASICs through tape-out
  • Define verification architecture, strategy, schedules and DV environments for complex ML ASICs
  • Serve as technical authority on testbench architecture, coverage and sign-off criteria
  • Lead debug on hardest failures and own tape-out readiness sign-off
  • Support lab functional validation and bring-up debug for first silicon
  • Lead, coach and retain team of 8-10 engineers including principal-level engineers
  • Deep understanding of performance verification methodology
  • High-performance interconnect protocols (PCIe, Ethernet) and memory subsystems
  • Advanced TSMC nodes and multi-die or chiplet verification challenges
  • Emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms
  • Managing cross-site or distributed teams
  • Fluency with Claude or other AI tools applied to verification

Lab profile

About SambaNova

Full-stack AI infrastructure with RDU dataflow chips for fast agentic inference.

What they build

  • RDU Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
  • SambaRack rack-scale hardware
  • Full-stack AI inference platform

Known for

  • Reconfigurable dataflow architecture alternative to GPUs
  • High decode performance for agentic workloads
  • Full-stack hardware-software co-design

Key facts

  • Founded in 2017
  • Headquartered in Palo Alto, California
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