Director of ASIC Design Verification
SambaNova · San Jose, California, United States · San Jose, CA
CHECKED 11H AGO
Infrastructureonsitedirector$270k–$340k
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