Sr. Staff ASIC Verification Engineer

Role Description

As a senior member of Tensordyne’s ASIC team, you will lead all phases of ASIC verification and will be responsible for the pre-silicon correctness of Tensordyne’s next-generation family of processors for generative AI inference acceleration. This ASIC’s design closely couples novel computational accelerator units with 3rd-party SoC IP blocks to deliver the high-performance multi-chip silicon solutions that are at the heart of Tensordyne’s vertically integrated, generative AI inference acceleration systems for data centers.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with design engineers to stay abreast of the specification and implementation of ASIC blocks.
• Develop comprehensive test and coverage strategies.
• Implement the verification environment and tests using object-oriented tools, in particular SystemVerilog and UVM.
• Handle bug tracking and coverage convergence.
• Develop scripts and methodologies for the front-end ASIC flow.
• Ensure the pre-silicon correctness and quality of a multi-million gate ASIC that integrates computational accelerators and 3rd-party SoC IP blocks.
• SoC/Subsystem verification of embedded CPUs such as ARM/RISC-V and interconnect subsystem (including C and assembly diag validation).
• Lead verification planning from architecture through tapeout.
• Develop block-level, sub-system and full-chip verification environment and tests to implement test plans.
• Establish reusable verification methodologies and frameworks - scale testbenches to subsystem and full chip environments.
• Work closely with design and architecture teams to understand the functional and performance goals of the design.
• Triage and debug functional and performance issues with the design-under-test.
• Drive verification signoff criteria and quality metrics - handle bug tracking, coverage convergence, regression failures.
• Mentor and technically guide verification engineers helping them through test planning and verification closure.
• Perform diagnostic and post-silicon validation tests in the lab.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of ASIC verification experience - having taken multiple chips through the entire cycle of verification and post silicon validation.
• Expert in System Verilog, UVM, Constraint Randomization, Functional Coverage.
• Experience in C/C++ or System-C.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming principles, constrained random stimulus, and coverage driven verification approach.
• Verification experience of high-speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, DDR/HBM, SerDes, etc.).
• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming) highly-desirable.
• Interest to explore AI architectures for convolution, transformer and other kinds of workloads.
• Self-starter and highly-motivated to work in a dynamic start-up environment.
• B.S. (M.S. preferred) degree in Electrical or Computer engineering (or similar field).

Benefits

• Ground floor opportunity with the team; be part of shaping one of the most exciting new companies.
• Learning and development opportunities from a highly diverse and talented peer group, including experts in a wide range of fields, from Artificial Intelligence & Computer Vision to Systems & Device Engineering.
• Competitive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental.
• Perks including meals, snacks, drinks and us!
• Sharp, motivated co-workers in a fun office environment.
• Flexible work hours & generous PTO policy.