HPE
Design Verification Manager
$174K–$352K
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in pre-silicon ASIC/SoC Design Verification and 5+ years of engineering management or formal team leadership.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
About the job
Leads a silicon design verification team, setting verification strategy and methodology for complex SoC and IP products through pre-silicon validation and tape-out.
What you'll do
- Manage, mentor, and allocate resources for design verification engineers across parallel schedules.
- Define verification strategies, testbench architecture, infrastructure, and execution plans across block, subsystem, and full-chip environments.
- Coordinate with architecture, RTL design, physical design, and post-silicon teams to address coverage gaps, debug failures, and meet tape-out milestones.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
- 10+ years of hands-on pre-silicon ASIC/SoC Design Verification experience.
- 5+ years of engineering management or formal team leadership directly managing engineering headcount, performance reviews, and project schedules.
- Expert fluency in SystemVerilog and UVM architecture; proven mastery of building scalable UVM-compliant testbenches from scratch.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science; exposure to or experience applying AI/ML in verification pipelines.
- Experience with multi-protocol high-speed interfaces such as PCIe Gen6/7, CXL, HBM3, or NVLink; ability to manage globally distributed teams.
Pay
USD 174,000 - 352,500 base salary
Tools
SystemVerilog, Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, PCIe Gen6/7, CXL, HBM3
AI focus
Preferred exposure to or hands-on use of AI/ML in verification pipelines, including smart stimulus generation, coverage convergence, automated bug triage, or regression optimization.
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