Staff Design Verification Engineer, AI HW

The role

Design Verification Engineers validate compute IP and subsystems and build scalable DV infrastructure. This work supports custom AI compute cores, RISC-V CPUs, and chiplet-based architectures.

What you will do

• Contribute to verification of Tensix IP and subsystems from early planning through tape-out.
• Own coverage goals and drive them to closure.
• Build and maintain reusable verification environments, agents, scoreboards, and supporting infrastructure in SystemVerilog and Python.
• Develop constrained-random and directed tests.
• Close functional, code, and assertion coverage using data-driven approaches.
• Debug complex issues across RTL and testbench.
• Collaborate with design, firmware, compiler, and architecture teams.
• Help evolve DV infrastructure including regression flows, CI/CD integration, EDA compute environments, and reproducible setups.

Required qualifications

• Experienced in modern verification methodologies with strong SystemVerilog skills and exposure to structured testbench development.
• Comfortable working from block-level to system-level verification and reasoning about microarchitecture behavior from specs and waveforms.
• Proficient in Linux environments with Python, or Bash scripting for automate builds, parse logs, manage CI pipelines.
• Skilled in coverage-driven verification and confident debugging across RTL, testbench, and workload scenarios.
• Motivated by AI hardware and eager to learn verification strategies for new architectures and domains.

Nice to have

• Exposure to functional safety (FuSa) verification concepts for automotive AI workloads.
• Familiarity with formal verification methodologies, SVA (SystemVerilog Assertions), or formal property verification for complex control logic and microarchitectural corner cases.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package and benefits

Before you apply

• Candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level during the interview process.
• Offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology.
• Offer may be contingent upon citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency.

About the company

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology. Their team has developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch.