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About the Role

We are seeking a Director of Silicon Validation to lead the verification and validation of AI inference silicon, encompassing pre-silicon functional verification, hardware emulation, and post-silicon bring-up and production validation. This leadership role is crucial for ensuring the correctness of our designs and requires a proven ability to lead verification and validation teams through multiple successful tape-outs, demonstrating expertise in both SystemVerilog and post-silicon environments, and developing scalable methodologies.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow pre-silicon design verification, hardware emulation, and post-silicon validation and bring-up disciplines.
Own the verification strategy, test plans, and coverage closure criteria for tape-out readiness.
Define content execution across simulation, emulation, FPGA prototyping, and silicon to maximize bug discovery.
Scale the emulation environment to enable early firmware and software bring-up.
Establish the post-silicon bring-up plan, lab infrastructure, and debug strategy.
Lead post-silicon bring-up efforts, including bug triage, root cause analysis, and errata management.
Partner with design, DFT, physical design, firmware, and software teams to integrate verification intent and debug hooks.
Own regression infrastructure, compute and license capacity planning, and continuous integration for verification and emulation workloads.
Manage relationships with EDA, emulation, and IP vendors.
Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing verification and validation organization across multiple sites.

Requirements

A degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
12+ years of experience in ASIC verification and/or silicon validation.
At least 5 years of experience in a leadership role.
Proven track record taking multiple complex ASICs from verification planning through successful first silicon and production ramp.
Deep hands-on expertise in SystemVerilog, UVM, constrained-random verification, functional coverage, and assertion-based verification.
Demonstrated ownership of a hardware emulation platform (Cadence Palladium, Siemens Veloce, or Synopsys ZeBu), including model build flows, capacity and partitioning, transactors, and co-emulation.
Experience leading post-silicon bring-up, including first power-on, boot, interface training, characterization, and silicon debug.
Strong understanding of high-speed interface and memory subsystem validation, including PCIe, LPDDR/HBM, SerDes, and coherent interconnect.
Working knowledge of DFT, ATPG, and MBIST.
Experience defining verification sign-off criteria and presenting readiness data to executive stakeholders.
Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Experience verifying and validating AI/ML accelerators, high-performance computing (HPC), or data center silicon.
Firmware or embedded software bring-up experience.
Hands-on deployment of formal verification methodology alongside simulation-based verification.
Experience with Arm-based subsystems and coherent mesh interconnects.
Familiarity with virtual prototyping, performance validation, and correlating silicon results to pre-silicon models.
Track record building verification automation and applying AI-assisted tooling.
Experience scaling a validation organization across multiple geographic sites.
Successful track record of technology development within a dynamic start-up environment.
Authorized to work in the U.S.
Open to facilitating H-1B visa transfers for eligible candidates.

Skills

SystemVerilog
UVM
Constrained-random verification
Functional coverage
Assertion-based verification
Hardware emulation platform ownership
Post-silicon bring-up
High-speed interface validation
Memory subsystem validation
PCIe
LPDDR/HBM
SerDes
Coherent interconnect
DFT
ATPG
MBIST
Verification automation
AI-assisted tooling

Location

Austin, TX

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Director
12+ years of experience
5+ years in a leadership role

Education Level

Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Salary/Compensations

$200,000 – $350,000

Benefits

Fully company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
Company-paid life and disability coverage, with voluntary options
Supplemental hospital, critical illness, and accident coverage available
Unlimited paid time off
13 paid company holidays
Company-provided computer and home office setup
Competitive salary and equity
401(k) with company matching

About the Company

We are at the forefront of AI inference hardware innovation.
We are shaping the future of AI acceleration technology.
We are a growth-oriented organization.
We are a dynamic start-up environment.

Equal Opportunity

Equal Opportunity Employer.
If you're excited about the role but don't meet every bullet, we'd still love to hear from you.