Senior Staff Design Verification Engineer

Cerebras
Sunnyvale
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 250,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Debugging","Problem-solving","Interpersonal skills","Collaboration","Self-motivation"]

Drive verification for Cerebras’ next-generation AI chip, working closely with architects, RTL/physical design, firmware, and software teams to ensure designs work on first silicon. Build verification strategies, detailed test plans, and reusable environments with stimulus, checkers, assertions, and coverage. Implement regressions, debug failures across simulation/emulation/silicon bring-up, and improve verification infrastructure and best practices.

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Senior Staff Design Verification Engineer

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Job Summary

Drive verification for Cerebras’ next-generation AI chip, working closely with architects, RTL/physical design, firmware, and software teams to ensure designs work on first silicon. Build verification strategies, detailed test plans, and reusable environments with stimulus, checkers, assertions, and coverage. Implement regressions, debug failures across simulation/emulation/silicon bring-up, and improve verification infrastructure and best practices.
Location: Sunnyvale
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with architects, designers, post-silicon, and software engineers to deliver high-quality designs that work on first silicon.
  • •Develop verification strategies, detailed tests, and coverage plans based on micro-architecture.
  • •Create verification methodologies and reusable environments using stimulus, checkers, assertions, and coverage.
  • •Implement tests and regressions, gather coverage, and debug test failures.
  • •Analyze and debug complex issues across simulation, emulation, and silicon bring-up while improving verification infrastructure and best practices.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 300,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of design verification experience with deep debugging and problem-solving skills.
  • •Strong SystemVerilog testbench knowledge, including DPI and UVM.
  • •Experience developing scalable, portable testbenches and verification environments/components.
  • •Proficiency with verification methodologies and tools such as simulators, waveform viewers, automation, coverage collection, and gate-level simulations.
  • •Scripting skills in Python or Perl and strong interpersonal collaboration.
Experience:10+ yearsDesign verification
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
Skills:DebuggingProblem-solvingInterpersonal skillsCollaborationSelf-motivation
Tech Stack:SystemVerilogDPIUVMPythonPerl

Company Brief

Cerebras
Designs and builds wafer-scale AI accelerators and systems for large-scale deep learning workloads, delivering specialized hardware and software to accelerate model training and inference for enterprises and research institutions.
Industry: Hardware Devices
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, United States
Founded: 2016
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