Director, ASIC Verification & Strategy (Onsite Santa Clara)

Netpreme; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) match

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Relocation assistance

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Netpreme is seeking a Director of ASIC Verification who leads from the front: you'll own verification strategy, sign-off, and the team — and you'll also be one of the strongest hands‑on verification engineers here, writing testbenches, closing coverage, and debugging the hardest failures. This onsite role will be performed at our Santa Clara, CA office.

You will architect verification environments, drive coverage closure, recruit and grow a world‑class team, and present readiness to engineering

Qualifications

• 8+ years in ASIC/SOC verification with 5+ years leading teams.
• Experience writing verification code and testbenches, closing coverage.
• Multiple tapeouts in advanced process nodes with sign-off ownership.
• Hands-on with high-speed protocol IP (Ethernet, UCIe, UALink).
• Full ASIC/SOC lifecycle understanding from microarchitecture to tape-out.

Responsibilities

• Own verification end-to-end: strategy, methodology (UVM, formal, emulation, coverage-driven closure), tape-out sign-off for Netpreme silicon, IP, subsystems and post silicon bringup support including test-vector generation.
• Architect and author verification environments and testplans, review testbench code line-by-line, and personally drive debug of the hardest protocol, coverage, and bring‑up issues
• Recruit, lead, and develop a world‑class verification organization that treats technical depth as the currency
• Present verification readiness, metrics, and risk posture to engineering leadership with conviction

Skills

Verification strategy

Testbench development

UVM

Formal verification

Emulation

Coverage closure

Debugging failures

Team leadership

Executive communication

Education

BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Job description

Netpreme is seeking a Director of ASIC Verification who leads from the front: you'll own verification strategy, sign-off, and the team — and you'll also be one of the strongest hands‑on verification engineers here, writing testbenches, closing coverage, and debugging the hardest failures. This onsite role will be performed at our Santa Clara, CA office.

You will architect verification environments, drive coverage closure, recruit and grow a world‑class team, and present readiness to engineering