Drimva

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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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)