Velaura AI
Design Verification Engineer- CPU
$200K–$300K
Santa Clara, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8 or more years verifying high-performance CPUs or complex digital designs.
- Education
- BS or higher in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
About the job
Own verification of a custom high-performance CPU, from test planning through coverage closure, to confirm its microarchitecture behaves correctly across hardware and software systems.
What you'll do
- Verify CPU units, including instruction fetch, decode, load/store, and caches; develop testbenches, stimulus, checkers, assertions, and coverage.
- Create test and coverage plans with architects, verify architectural behavior and performance, and compare instruction-level stimulus against a golden instruction set simulator.
- Run regressions, track bugs and coverage, support emulation and FPGA prototyping, and debug issues across hardware and software.
What they ask for
- 8 or more years verifying high-performance CPUs or complex digital designs.
- Strong computer architecture and microarchitecture fundamentals; experience owning verification from test plan through coverage closure.
- Experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, C and C++, assertions, coverage-driven verification, test plans, portable testbenches, and transactors.
- BS or higher in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of ARM or RISC-V ISA and CPU verification domains such as cache coherence or memory ordering.
- Experience with formal verification, silicon bring-up, custom processor verification, or AI-assisted verification workflows.
Pay
USD 200,000–300,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
SystemVerilog, UVM, C, C++, ARM, RISC-V
AI focus
The role verifies a CPU designed for Physical AI compute; preferred experience includes using AI-assisted verification workflows to improve productivity and coverage.
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