Senior FPGA Verification Engineer (FPGA)

Location: 100% onsite at the El Segundo headquarters, California, United States

Salary: $158,000–$219,450 per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a startup developing mass-produced, portable nuclear microreactors for hospitals, data centers, remote sites, and military bases.

What you will do

• Lead FPGA verification from test-plan development through coverage closure.
• Develop and maintain automated testbenches for functional, regression, constrained-random, and edge-case coverage.
• Verify sensor processing, serial communication, actuator handling, and safety-critical control logic.
• Collaborate with RTL design, hardware, embedded software, and test engineers to resolve bugs and confirm design intent.
• Recommend tools and practices to improve the FPGA verification flow.
• Contribute to RTL design work as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of FPGA verification experience with significant functional verification depth.
• Expert proficiency in SystemVerilog and UVM-based verification methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of simulation, coverage analysis, regression management, and multi-clock domain verification.
• Experience with UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, AXIS, and APB interfaces.
• Willingness to work 100% onsite in El Segundo and extended hours or weekends when necessary.

Nice to have

• Experience with the Microchip PolarFire SoC platform.
• Experience with JASPER or a similar verification tool.
• Linux and TCL/bash shell scripting proficiency.
• Strong documentation skills and experience in multidisciplinary engineering environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Substantial incentive stock plan for full-time employees.
• Medical, vision, dental, life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter, FSA, and HSA benefits.
• Eight weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, with additional paid pregnancy leave for California employees.
• Flexible PTO, catered daily lunch, snacks, drinks, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
• Company and team events with an in-person collaborative environment.