Drimva

HPE

Senior Design Verification Engineer

$154K–$310K

Sunnyvale, California, United States of America · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026

Experience
5–8 years of professional experience in design verification of digital/mixed-signal designs.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.

About the job

Develops and executes emulation-based verification for complex digital designs, driving functional correctness, performance validation, and coverage closure before silicon tape-out.

What you'll do

  • Create verification plans and UVM/SystemVerilog testbenches; run directed and constrained-random tests and drive coverage to closure.
  • Configure and use emulation platforms for system-level verification, performance validation, and early software bring-up.
  • Debug design issues, support verification sign-off, and collaborate with design, architecture, validation, software, and firmware teams.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
  • 5–8 years of professional experience in design verification of digital/mixed-signal designs.
  • Strong SystemVerilog and UVM proficiency, with hands-on experience using emulation-based verification platforms.
  • Knowledge of digital design, constrained-random verification, coverage-driven methodologies, and hardware debugging.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience with networking or interface protocols, formal verification, FPGA prototyping, power-aware verification, SoC verification, or AI/ML applications and architectures.

Pay

USD 153,500 - 310,500 annual base salary (California)

Tools

SystemVerilog, UVM, Cadence Palladium, Synopsys ZeBu, Mentor Veloce, SVA, Python, Perl

AI focus

AI/ML familiarity is preferred, including experience creating Gen AI skills, marketplaces, or agentic applications.

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