Principal Design Verifiction Engineer
SambaNova · San Jose, California, United States · San Jose, CA
Infrastructureonsiteprincipal$180k–$225k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own verification for major subsystem of next-gen RDU AI chip.
- Verify dataflow silicon against real ML and agentic workloads.
- Shape verification methodology and reusable infrastructure team-wide.
What they offer
- Equity
- 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance and 77% for dependents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- Dental and vision insurance
- Short/long-term disability, basic life, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending Account options
- Headspace subscription
- Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms
- One Medical membership
- Employee Assistance Program counseling services
Ideal candidate
Senior verification owner who thrives on hard debug and end-to-end ownership of complex silicon. You set technical direction, mentor others, and care about verifying real AI workloads.
Requirements
- BS or MS in EE, CS, or CE with 7+ years of industry experience in ASIC design verification
- Deep hands-on expertise in SystemVerilog and SVA with UVM, OVM or VMM, plus Python and C/C++ scripting
- Full-cycle DV ownership from test plan through tape-out on a complex ASIC or major subsystem including coverage closure
- Experience verifying digital logic in a CPU, GPU, SoC or comparably complex ASIC
- Track record debugging hard, intermittent or low-reproducibility pre-silicon failures to root cause
- Demonstrated technical leadership without formal authority, including reviews and mentoring engineers
- Working knowledge of modern computer architecture and ML accelerators or SoCs
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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