Senior Design Verification Engineer — AI-Driven Chip

Cognichip

Redwood City (CA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Cognichip in Redwood City, CA is seeking a Senior Design Verification Engineer to lead verification efforts for AI-native chip tooling. You will translate verification requirements into practical workflows and collaborate with AI researchers, software engineers, and hardware engineers to produce production-grade verification artifacts.

The role focuses on bridging hardware and software, building data pipelines, and refining test planning, coverage analysis, and bug triage.

Qualifications

5–8+ years of experience in design verification or hardware-focused software development.
Strong understanding of verification methodologies and testbench development for digital designs.
Experience with industry-standard simulation and verification tools.
Proficiency in Python or C++.

Responsibilities

Bridge Hardware and Software: Translate verification domain expertise into clear requirements that inform tool development and model behavior.
Support Data Pipelines: Contribute to workflows that generate synthetic or augmented verification code and testbenches, creating the datasets needed to train and evaluate AI models.
Workflow Optimization: Help refine automated workflows for verification-related tasks such as test planning, coverage analysis, and bug triage.
Infrastructure Support: Build and maintain simulation and testing infrastructure to validate AI-generated verification artifacts.
Collaboration: Work closely with AI researchers, software engineers, and other hardware engineers to ensure verification requirements are accurately reflected in tools and models.