Principal Design Verification Engineer (GPU)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States. On-site five days per week; no hybrid option.

Salary: $250,000–$280,000 per year base pay for the role based in California.

Company

hirify.global is a semiconductor startup building high-performance, efficient graphics processors for immersive content creation, simulation, and consumption.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end verification strategy from block and subsystem levels through full-chip SoC verification.
• Build, mentor, and scale a verification team while defining plans, milestones, and coverage goals.
• Lead UVM-based environments, testbench architecture, stimulus strategy, reusable components, regressions, and signoff.
• Drive functional, code, and assertion coverage closure, including formal verification, linting, and CDC/RDC analysis.
• Lead gate-level simulation with SDF annotation, timing-aware debug, low-power verification, and power-aware simulation.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, physical design, customers, and partners on verification readiness, post-silicon bring-up, and debug.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 12–15 years of ASIC/SoC design verification experience and a record of leading teams and delivering multiple tapeouts.
• Strong expertise in SystemVerilog, UVM, functional coverage, SVA assertions, constrained-random verification, and complex SoC-level debugging.
• Hands-on experience with Synopsys VCS, Cadence Xcelium, and Synopsys Verdi.
• Strong understanding of clock/reset domain crossings, low-power verification, gate-level simulation, and SDF annotation.
• Must work on-site in the Sunnyvale office five days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with CPU, GPU, AI, or networking SoCs.
• Expertise in GLS debug, including X-propagation, SDF issues, and timing failures.
• Familiarity with emulation platforms such as Synopsys ZeBu.
• Post-silicon validation and bring-up experience, plus performance or system-level validation knowledge.
• Strong Python or TCL scripting skills for automation and regression scaling.

Culture & Benefits

• First-principles approach focused on reducing barriers to immersive content creation and consumption.
• Culture built around being fearless, remaining adaptable, and educating the ego through collaboration.
• Medical, dental, and vision premiums fully covered.
• Stock options and a 401(k) match.
• Work-from-home hardware provided, while this role remains fully on-site.