Design Verification Engineer (AI Accelerator Silicon)

Location: Mountain View or remote in the United States

Salary: $240,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is partnering with an AI compute startup building a full-stack platform for large-scale AI workloads.

What you will do

• Translate architectural and design specifications into verification plans, testbenches, tests, models, and reusable infrastructure.
• Develop SystemVerilog and UVM environments, assertion-based checks, and portable tests or drivers.
• Use simulation and formal verification to investigate functional behavior, corner cases, and failures across testbench, model, and RTL boundaries.
• Drive structural and functional coverage closure, identify missing scenarios, diagnose failures, and prioritize further verification work.
• Contribute to sign-off decisions and verification reviews by reporting coverage gaps, remaining risks, and milestone readiness.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, and validation engineers across the silicon lifecycle.

Requirements

• Personal ownership of verification implementation and delivery for complex silicon blocks, subsystems, or SoCs.
• Production experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, and assertion-based verification, with comfort using formal and simulation methods.
• Strong debugging skills and the ability to connect failures to microarchitectural behavior.
• Experience closing coverage and explaining the technical evidence behind verification milestones.
• Understanding of compute, memory-management, or connectivity microarchitecture and its impact on verification choices.
• Programming or modeling skills supporting test development, reference behavior, automation, and failure analysis.
• Ability to justify coverage and closure decisions using technical evidence, including exercised behavior and remaining risks.

Nice to have

• Experience verifying CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, memory controllers, or complex connectivity with comparable ownership of implementation and closure.
• Emulation, prototyping, silicon validation, or bring-up experience connecting pre-silicon tests to hardware behavior.
• Experience creating portable tests, drivers, or reusable infrastructure across blocks and development stages.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work is available for the role, with Mountain View listed as an alternative location.
• Engineers at multiple career levels are considered; scope and complexity of owned work matter more than fixed tenure.