Director, ASIC Verification

The role

The Director of ASIC Verification will own verification strategy, sign-off, and the team. This person will write testbenches, close coverage, and debug failures for Netpreme silicon, IP, and subsystems.

What you will do

• Own verification end-to-end including strategy, methodology, and tape-out sign-off
• Provide post silicon bringup support including test-vector generation
• Architect and author verification environments and testplans
• Review testbench code line-by-line
• Personally drive debug of protocol, coverage, and bring-up issues
• Recruit, lead, and develop a verification organization
• Present verification readiness, metrics, and risk posture to engineering leadership

Required qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of progressive ASIC/SOC verification
• 5+ years leading verification teams
• Demonstrable experience writing verification code, building testbenches, and closing coverage
• Multiple tapeouts in advanced process nodes with ownership of technical work and sign-off
• Hands-on experience with high-speed protocol IP — Ethernet, UCIe, UALink, or comparable
• Fluent across the full ASIC/SOC lifecycle on designs integrating interconnect, I/O, and memory subsystems
• Executive communication skills
• Proven ability to manage risk, escalations, budget, and headcount on startup timelines

Nice to have

• PhD in EE, CE, or related field
• Built a verification team from zero at an early-stage startup while delivering milestones personally
• Hands-on post-silicon bring-up, debug, and validation leadership
• AI/datacenter accelerator background; familiarity with LLM memory/dataloader bottlenecks
• Knowledge of DFT and its interaction with front-end verification

Benefits

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonus and early-stage equity grant
• 100% employer-paid Health, Dental, and Vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) match with immediate vesting
• Access to financial advisors
• 100% employer-paid Life, Disability, and AD&D insurance
• Fitness stipend
• Wellness & mental health perks
• 20 vacation days
• 15 company holidays (including 3 floating days)
• Daily lunch stipend
• Enterprise-level Claude & ChatGPT access
• On-site parking and EV charging

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance offered

About the company

Netpreme is building a solution to the memory wall in AI systems. The company is founded by MIT researchers and is based in Cambridge, MA, and Santa Clara, CA.