Principal Digital Verification Engineer (SystemVerilog/UVM)

Location: On-site in Vancouver, BC or the Bay Area, CA

Company

Early-stage chiplet startup developing high-performance, manufacturable technologies for chiplet-based systems, including PHYs and controllers.

What you will do

• Provide technical verification leadership for connectivity IPs, chiplets, PHYs, controllers, and company products, including guidance for junior verification engineers.
• Develop and execute verification plans, test plans, coverage reviews, and progress tracking through RTL freeze.
• Create and maintain SystemVerilog/UVM-based block- and chip-level testbenches, test cases, assertions, DPI-based firmware simulation environments, and gate-level simulation environments.
• Drive constrained-random, coverage-driven, silicon, functional, and power verification methodologies.
• Maintain automated regression environments and verification flows supporting design CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with design engineers, integrate third-party VIPs and mixed-signal IPs, ensure protocol compliance, and coordinate feature and bug tracking.

Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering or a related field and 15+ years of experience.
• Strong expertise in UVM, SystemVerilog test-environment development, and assertion coding.
• Strong expertise in coverage-driven verification.
• Proficiency with third-party tools for regression management and coverage analysis.
• Experience with connectivity interfaces and protocols.
• Experience verifying third-party mixed-signal IPs and integrating VIPs.
• Strong debugging skills and a strong bias toward innovation, automation, and verification quality improvement.
• Strong understanding of microcontroller architecture and peripherals communicating with microcontrollers.
• Hands-on experience with at least one scripting language.
• Proven experience working in a startup-like environment.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of I/O interfaces.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced early-stage startup environment focused on innovation and first-principles engineering.
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering experts.
• Work on high-volume, high-performance, and manufacturable chiplet products.
• Fun work environment with excellent benefits.