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Design Verification Engineer - SoC
$150K–$350K
San Jose · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2025
About the job
Verifies performance and correctness of custom SoC IP and tunes hardware-software performance across the ASIC lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Develop test plans, test infrastructure, tests, checkers, and coverage monitors for performance verification.
- Correlate performance models with RTL and silicon, and maintain architectural performance models.
- Collaborate across hardware and software teams to diagnose bottlenecks and tune performance on silicon.
What they ask for
- Strong understanding of digital design, RTL, and ASIC design flows.
- Hands-on experience with performance verification, simulation, and modeling.
- Ability to develop SystemVerilog testbenches, checkers, and coverage monitors.
- Python scripting skills for automation, data analysis, and performance modeling.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with performance bottleneck analysis, compiler optimizations, and workload tuning.
- Some exposure to kernel-level performance metrics and profiling tools.
Pay
USD 150K – 350K base salary
Tools
SystemVerilog, Python
AI focus
Works on verification and performance tuning for inference-focused chip hardware; no specific AI development work is stated.
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