Verification Lead (Lead DV)

The role

You will own end to end verification for a first-of-its-kind chiplet. You will define methodology, coverage strategy, and regression infrastructure while leading and growing the DV team.

What you will do

• Own the full DV strategy including verification plan, coverage model, UVM architecture, and signoff criteria.
• Stand up regression/CI infrastructure and nightly runs.
• Verify in-house engines against an algorithmic golden model.
• Own emulation and FPGA-prototyping methodology.
• Handle UCIe VIP and compliance, link-training, loopback, and lane-repair scenarios.
• Perform performance and throughput verification.
• Conduct UVM register verification, firmware co-simulation, and boot flows.
• Perform mixed-signal co-simulation.
• Execute gate-level and low-power (UPF) verification.
• Lead and grow the DV team.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years ASIC/SoC verification
• Team leadership on at least one complex SoC from plan to tapeout
• Proven leadership verifying large, complex digital SoCs / subsystems, including interconnect fabric and full-chip closure
• Deep UVM/SystemVerilog
• Coverage-driven verification
• Constrained-random methodology
• Hands-on with hardware-assisted verification — emulation (e.g., Palladium/Veloce) and/or FPGA prototyping (e.g., HAPS/Protium)
• Comfortable with mixed-signal verification (Verilog-AMS or SV real models)

Nice to have

• High-speed SerDes, PAM4, or FEC/coding (Reed-Solomon) verification experience
• UCIe, PCIe/CXL, Ethernet, UALink or comparable die-to-die / link-layer VIP and compliance experience
• NIC Cards, Ethernet/IB Switches, Cache-coherency verification (multi-core / coherent fabric)
• Low-power/UPF and gate-level simulation methodology
• Performance-verification methodology
• Formal verification for control/interlock logic; portable-stimulus

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision
• Professional development opportunities and certification support
• Access to cutting-edge technology and cloud platforms
• Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams

About the company

Lumilens is building photonics infrastructure for AI supercomputing. It is a well-funded startup backed by Mayfield.