Meta
Design Verification Engineer, Silicon
$146K–$209K
Sunnyvale, CA +3 · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Redmond, WA
Austin, TX
San Diego, CA - Experience
- 6+ years in digital design verification and 6+ years with hardware description and verification languages.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Verifies custom silicon for AR/VR and AI devices by developing and executing simulation-based and formal verification strategies from design specification through tape-out.
What you'll do
- Develop verification plans, UVM testbenches, and coverage models for RTL blocks, subsystems, and SoCs.
- Maintain simulation, regression, and automated test infrastructure; debug failures and perform formal verification.
- Coordinate verification and pre-silicon test content with design, architecture, software, firmware, and post-silicon teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of digital design verification experience, including UVM-based constrained-random testbenches.
- 6+ years of experience with hardware description and verification languages, including SystemVerilog and/or VHDL.
- Experience with functional and code coverage, RTL simulation debugging, scripting for test automation, HW/SW interoperability verification, and firmware validation.
Nice to have
- Experience with post-silicon validation, hardware bring-up, or consumer/mobile/wearable SoC verification, including low-power techniques.
- Familiarity with formal verification and agentic AI flows; experience with CPUs, AI accelerators, security, interconnects, memory controllers, or full-SoC verification.
Pay
$146,000/year to $209,000/year USD base salary; bonus and equity also stated, with no amounts specified.
Tools
UVM, SystemVerilog, VHDL, Python, Perl
AI focus
Verifies custom AI silicon, including AI accelerators; familiarity with agentic AI flows is noted.
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