Staff Design Verification Engineer Jobs

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. Our Tensix team is building custom AI compute cores, RISC-V CPUs, and chiplet-based architectures for datacenter, edge, and automotive AI. Design Verification Engineers on this team validate compute IP and subsystems and build scalable DV infrastructure to keep verification fast, automated, and production-grade. This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, ON, Austin, TX or Belgrade, Serbia. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are Experienced in modern verification methodologies with strong SystemVerilog skills and exposure to structured testbench development. Comfortable working from block-level to system-level verification and reasoning about microarchitecture behavior from specs and waveforms. Proficient in Linux environments with Python, or Bash scripting for automate builds, parse logs, manage CI pipelines. Skilled in coverage-driven verification and confident debugging across RTL, testbench, and workload scenarios. Motivated by AI hardware and eager to learn verification strategies for new architectures and domains. What We Need Contribute to verification of Tensix IP and subsystems from early planning through tape-out, owning cov

Staff Design Verification Engineer, HBM Architecture — Richardson, TX. Apply via Workday.

Staff Design Verification Engineer, DRAM — Boise, ID - Main Site. Apply via Workday.

Staff Design Verification Engineer/Architect, HBM — Richardson, TX. Apply via Workday.

Sr/Staff Design Verification Engineer, HBM Verification Architecture — Richardson, TX. Apply via Workday.

Senior/Staff Design Verification Engineer, HBM — Richardson, TX. Apply via Workday.

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. We are looking for a Sr. Staff Design Verification Engineer to lead end-to-end verification efforts for our advanced CPU and AI compute platforms. This role is ideal for seasoned engineers with deep expertise in CPU verification who excel at driving complex test plans to closure, mentoring teams, and leveraging modern AI tools to accelerate innovation. This role is hybrid, based out of Boston, Toronto, Ottawa or Santa Clara. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are Proven track record leading end-to-end CPU verification across processor cores, caches, interconnects, interrupts, MMU/IOMMU, and cache coherency protocols, with multi-chip and emulation experience a plus. Expert in creating comprehensive test plans and building simulation testbenches using SV-UVM, C/DPI, and Cocotb. Skilled in managing high-volume regression execution, complex failure triage, and driving test plans and coverage metrics to closure. Experienced leader and mentor dedicated to guiding junior engineers and fostering verification best practices across teams. Proficient in leveraging modern AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to optimize ver

Staff Verification Design Engineer, DRAM — Boise, ID - Main Site. Apply via Workday.

Staff Engineer - Design Verification — Hyderabad - Phoenix Aquila, India. Apply via Workday.

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. We are looking for a Design Verification Engineer to contribute to the unit-level verification of our RISC-V CPU front end—including instruction fetch, branch prediction, and surrounding fetch control structures. As a key individual contributor within our front-end DV team, you will focus on building testbenches, generating stimulus, and developing checkers for complex microarchitectural scenarios. This role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX or Santa Clara, CA. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are Front-End Experience: Solid background verifying CPU front-end blocks—such as instruction fetch, branch predictors (BTB, TAGE, RAS), instruction caches/TLBs, or decode—using SystemVerilog, UVM, and C++. Unit-Level Focus: Hands-on experience building clean, controllable unit testbench environments with precise stimulus and checking. Reusable Design: Pragmatic approach to building transactors, predictors, and scoreboards that can be reused across verification levels. Collaborative Problem Solver: Comfortable working alongside RTL designers to trace and fix misspeculation, redirect, and edge-case fetch bugs. What We Need Unit-Level Verifica

Staff/Principal Engineer - Design Verification (SoC expert/lead) — San Jose, CA. Apply via Workday.

Silicon Verification Engineer Multiple roles across different levels Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. The verification team sits within the Silicon design team and is responsible for ensuring that the RTL created by the logical design team and used by the physical design team matches the architecture specification for Graphcore silicon. The silicon verification engineer is responsible for verification activities within Graphcore, helping the team meet the company objectives for quality silicon delivery. Responsibilities Verification planning, specification and closure of functional coverage Providing feedback to architects Test generation and failure diagnosis/triage Contributing to shared verification infrastructure Ensuring good communication between sites Essential skills: • Verification experience in relevant industry • Proven leadership and planning skills • Highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player • Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues • Experience of the verification process applied in CPU and/or ASIC environments • System Verilog, Python, C++, Linux Desirable skills: • UVM • SVA • Assembly languages • LLVM, GCC • DVCS e.g. Git • SGE or other DRMS • XML and XPath/XSLT • Web programming – HTML/DOM, Javascript, SQL Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefit

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. Micron’s High‑Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Digital Design organization is seeking a Digital Physical Design Engineer to drive backend implementation of high‑performance, low‑power digital logic used in advanced memory products. This role spans backend implementation from Netlist to GDSII, with a strong focus on timing closure, power integrity, and manufacturability in advanced process technologies. The successful candidate will work closely with RTL, DFT, CAD, and verification teams to deliver high‑quality physical designs, contribute to methodology improvements, and help push performance, power, and area (PPA) targets in complex, multi‑hierarchy designs. Key Responsibilities: Own and execute physical design implementation from synthesized netlist through GDSII, including floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and physical signoff Utilize AI-Enabled tools in the Netlist to GDS flow Perform and drive timing closure across multiple modes, corners, and scenarios using industry‑standard STA tools Analyze and resolve congestion, timing, IR drop, EM, and power integrity issues Develop and refine floorplans, power grids, and clocking strategies for high‑performance designs Work with placement and timing closure of custom analog hard IP macros in a digital-on-top design flow Collaborate closely with RTL designers to influence partitioning, constraints, and micro‑architecture decisions early in the design cycle Implement and va

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. At Tenstorrent, we're building cutting-edge AI compute solutions. Developing diagnostics programs to validate the functionality and stress the performance of our solutions is a critical part of delivering exceptional products. We are looking for Engineers to join our Diagnostics Development team. These engineers will work closely with our firmware, software, board, ASIC design and verification teams to ensure that the ASICs, boards, and AI compute systems meet the highest standards of quality and performance. This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, Canada. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are You're curious, hands-on, and excited by the challenge of building powerful systems that sit at the intersection of hardware and software. You enjoy working close to the metal, whether that’s writing code, debugging hardware, or exploring how systems perform under stress. You thrive in collaborative environments and love learning from teammates across disciplines like firmware, ASIC design, and manufacturing. You’re motivated by impact and want to contribute to technology that’s shaping the future of AI and computing. What We Need A

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. The physical design team sits within the wider silicon design team which includes RTL, verification and DFT. Our work also involves strong links with architecture, packaging and product engineering. We are responsible for working with those teams to create high-quality RTL and building the final chip layout (e.g. GDSII) ensuring a signoff-quality design is delivered to the Foundry (e.g. TSMC). We are looking to hire high-quality silicon physical design engineers to join our team. The successful candidate will support the team with achieving our goals and creating the right engineering solutions. We are a collaborative team and good communication is essential, as is the ability to adapt and learn. For the successful candidate we offer an open, honest and collaborative environment working on leading-edge designs at the most advanced nodes. Our engineers are not siloed, and they are trusted and encouraged to ta ke ownership of their designs and problem solutions. You will be part of a team that looks for improvements to everything we do: our designs, our flows, our methodologies, our infrastructure. Responsibilities and Duties Applicants will be expected to contribute technically to the development of Graphcore's next generation of AI superchips, focusing on achieving robust, high-performance and power-efficient designs