Senior Verification Engineer (AI)

Location: Leixlip, Ireland; hybrid work model with time split between the assigned hirify.global site and off-site work.

Annual salary: €75,200–€117,500.

Company

hirify.global's Central Engineering Group designs and verifies IPs and architectures for NIC, IPU, ASIC, networking, AI, cloud, and other specialized workloads.

What you will do

• Own verification planning and execution for key IP features and subsystem integration points.
• Build scalable verification environments with reusable test benches, checkers, VIPs, behavioral models, and targeted test plans.
• Use simulation and formal property verification to identify and resolve pre-silicon bugs and achieve coverage closure.
• Collaborate with architecture, design, and software teams from specification through bring-up.
• Lead IP delivery, functional sign-offs, and verification of performance and power metrics across multiple customers.
• Mentor verification engineers and establish team-level verification best practices, including AI-assisted development and ML-driven verification flows.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in functional design verification for ASIC, SoC, or FPGA designs.
• Expertise in SystemVerilog, OVM/UVM, debugging tools, IP test environments, and/or formal verification.
• Strong knowledge of digital design fundamentals and microarchitecture principles.
• Experience with formal property verification, SystemVerilog Assertions, and code and functional coverage analysis is preferred.
• Experience with Ethernet, IPsec, DTLS, MACsec, AMBA APB/AXI, SystemC, Python, Perl, or shell scripting is preferred.

Nice to have

• Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience collaborating across teams to drive architectural improvements.
• Practical use of AI tools in pre-silicon design verification workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model combining on-site and off-site work.
• Work in an agile, highly skilled design and verification team.
• Opportunities to contribute to advanced silicon and system innovation across networking, cloud, and AI workloads.
• Total compensation package with additional pay components and benefits potentially included.