Asteralabs
Staff/ Principal Design Verification Engineer
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel. Posted 5 months ago
The role
You will develop verification environments and testbenches to validate high-performance digital blocks, subsystems, and full-chip designs. This role focuses on functional verification for semiconductor chips used in AI infrastructure.
What you will do
- Contribute to the design and development of ASIC verification environments
- Develop and maintain SystemVerilog/UVM-based components including traffic generators, monitors, and checkers
- Execute detailed verification plans for digital designs
- Implement functional coverage models and analyze results
- Drive designs toward 100% verification closure
- Contribute to verification methodology improvements and best practices
- Work with design engineers to identify, root-cause, and resolve complex hardware bugs
- Apply analytical skills and debugging techniques to solve verification challenges
- Collaborate in a fast-paced, team-oriented R&D environment
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field
- 5+ years of proven experience in ASIC verification within the semiconductor industry
- Hands-on experience developing components within complex verification environments using SystemVerilog
- Strong working knowledge of standard verification methodologies, specifically UVM
- Sharp analytical mind with passion for debugging and technical problem-solving
- Excellent communication skills
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- Familiarity with Formal Verification or Emulation flows
- Basic proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or Tcl to automate verification tasks
- Exposure to industry-standard protocols such as AMBA, PCIe, Ethernet, or CXL
- Experience with assertion-based verification and constrained-random testing
- Background in connectivity or networking silicon verification
About the company
Astera Labs provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. The company integrates semiconductor-based technologies with the COSMOS software suite to deliver connectivity for AI clusters.