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Principal ASIC Verification Engineer at Atom Computing

Principal ASIC Verification Engineer

Atom Computing · Austin, TX, US

4 weeks ago

Principal ASIC Verification Engineer

Atom Computing · Austin, TX, US

a month ago
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About the Role

Lead functional verification of ASICs used in Atom Computing's quantum computer. Guide test-plan execution and contribute to testbench development, evaluation, and debug.

Responsibilities

  • Own block-to-chip verification plans, schedules, and signoff criteria; lead test development and execution.
  • Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, review test plans and code, and participate in candidate interviews.
  • Define contractor scope, milestones, and acceptance criteria; review deliverables and oversee integration and handoff.
  • Develop Python testbenches, reusable drivers, monitors, reference models, and scoreboards integrated with RTL simulators.
  • Implement tests, automate regressions, debug failures, and close coverage.
  • Communicate verification status, unresolved defects, and tapeout risks.
  • Lead post-layout gate-level verification, including netlist preparation, SDF annotation, and timing-accurate simulation.
  • Verify test modes and patterns with DFT, design, and physical design teams; resolve timing and signoff issues.
  • Resolve requirements and interface issues with architecture, RTL, firmware, and hardware teams; support silicon bring-up and validation.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of ASIC/SoC verification experience, with 15+ preferred.
  • Experience verifying multiple ASICs through tapeout and subsequent silicon evaluation, applying findings to improve verification.
  • Experience with block-to-chip verification of registers, data paths, and firmware interfaces.
  • Strong Python skills for reusable, object-oriented testbenches with constrained-random stimulus, simulation control, checkers, and coverage.
  • Ability to build behavioral models of mixed-signal blocks, including their digital interfaces and timing.
  • Experience turning design requirements into verification plans, writing SystemVerilog assertions, and closing functional and code coverage.
  • Hands-on post-P&R experience preparing netlists and cell/memory models, annotating SDF, and debugging timing simulations.
  • DFT verification experience with test modes and flows such as scan shift/capture, ATPG patterns, MBIST, or JTAG.
  • Strong RTL and waveform debugging skills, especially resets, clock domains, X propagation, and timing checks.
  • Proficiency with SystemVerilog/UVM, HDL debug tools, Linux, and version control.
  • Experience with regression automation, failure reproduction, and triage.
  • Technical leadership through ASIC tapeout, including mentoring engineers, leading reviews, coordinating verification work, and communicating risks.
  • Experience directing verification contractors, defining scope and acceptance criteria, and reviewing delivery against quality and schedule commitments.
  • Silicon bring-up or validation experience, including lab debug and correlating hardware failures with simulation.
  • Experience with formal verification, equivalence checking, CDC/RDC, lint, emulation, or FPGA prototyping.
  • Familiarity with real-time control, signal processing, or quantum hardware.

Skills

  • Python
  • SystemVerilog
  • UVM
  • HDL debug tools
  • Linux
  • Version control
  • Regression automation
  • Failure reproduction
  • Triage
  • Formal verification
  • Equivalence checking
  • CDC/RDC
  • Lint
  • Emulation
  • FPGA prototyping
  • Real-time control
  • Signal processing
  • Quantum hardware

Location

  • Onsite

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Principal
  • 10+ years
  • 15+ years

Education Level

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Salary/Compensations

  • $180,000 - $220,000
  • Annual bonus
  • Equity

Benefits

  • Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • 401K company matching
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • FSA
  • Dependent care benefits
  • Life insurance
  • Drinks, snacks, and catered team lunches

About the Company

  • Atom Computing builds quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms.
  • The company aims to empower customers to achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs.
  • Atom Computing is a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals advancing the state-of-the-art in quantum computing.