AI Silicon, Design Verification

The role

This person will define, architect, and implement verification plans and environments for IP blocks and full chip. They will build verification infrastructure and take ownership of the verification lifecycle.

What you will do

• Define, architect, and implement comprehensive verification plans and environments for IP blocks and full chip from specification to tape-out.
• Help build verification infrastructure from ground zero to flexible and nimble environments.
• Take full ownership of the verification lifecycle, including the development and maintenance of scalable testbenches, sophisticated test cases, and robust verification environments.
• Deploy industry-standard methodologies (UVM/SystemVerilog) to conduct constrained-random stimulus generation, coverage-driven verification, and assertions.
• Collaborate closely with digital and analog design teams, as well as software and systems teams.
• Define verification requirements, debug complex hardware/software interactions, and ensure design integrity.
• Perform exhaustive analysis of functional and code coverage.
• Debug failures at the RTL and gate level to ensure 100% verification closure and high-quality silicon.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience with advanced verification methodologies and languages, specifically UVM and SystemVerilog.
• Proven track record of developing and maintaining complex verification testbenches and automated test environments.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Shell, or Bash) for automation of verification flows and result analysis.
• Strong familiarity with general-purpose operating systems such as Linux.
• Strong familiarity with industry standard tools from companies such as Cadence and Synopsys.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, with a specific emphasis on computer architecture.
• Expert-level knowledge of UVM architecture and high-level behavioral modeling.
• Experience with modern AI-driven code generation tools

Benefits

• Best-in-class health benefits
• 401k matching
• Truly unlimited PTO
• Complimentary meals in our Palo Alto office

About the company

Unconventional is rethinking computing from the ground up to build a new foundation for AI that is 1000x more efficient by exploiting the rich physics of semiconductors.