Principal ASIC Verification Engineer (Quantum Computing)

Location: Austin, TX; hybrid workplace

Base salary: $180,000–$220,000 per year, plus annual bonus and equity.

Company

hirify.global develops quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms.

What you will do

• Own block-to-chip verification plans, schedules, signoff criteria, test development, and execution.
• Develop Python testbenches, reusable drivers, monitors, reference models, scoreboards, and regression automation integrated with RTL simulators.
• Lead post-layout gate-level verification, including netlist preparation, SDF annotation, and timing-accurate simulation.
• Verify DFT test modes and patterns, debug resets, clock domains, X propagation, timing checks, and unresolved failures.
• Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, coordinate contractors, review deliverables, and communicate verification risks.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, firmware, hardware, DFT, and physical design teams through tapeout, silicon bring-up, and validation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of ASIC/SoC verification experience; 15+ years preferred.
• Experience verifying multiple ASICs through tapeout and subsequent silicon evaluation.
• Strong Python, SystemVerilog, UVM, RTL debugging, HDL debug tools, Linux, and version control skills.
• Experience with verification planning, SystemVerilog assertions, constrained-random testing, behavioral mixed-signal models, and functional and code coverage closure.
• Hands-on experience with post-P&R netlists, SDF annotation, timing simulation, DFT flows, ATPG, MBIST, or JTAG.

Nice to have

• Technical leadership through ASIC tapeout and experience directing verification contractors.
• Silicon bring-up, lab debugging, and correlating hardware failures with simulation.
• Experience with formal verification, equivalence checking, CDC/RDC, lint, emulation, or FPGA prototyping.
• Familiarity with real-time control, signal processing, or quantum hardware.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
• Unlimited paid time off, 401(k) company matching, disability coverage, FSA, dependent care benefits, and life insurance.
• Annual bonus and company equity in addition to base salary.
• Drinks, snacks, and catered team lunches are provided in the offices.