Senior Digital Design Verification Engineer - Hardware

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 265,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in California is seeking a Senior Digital Design Verification Engineer to verify the design and implementation of SerDes IPs used in high‑speed interfaces for gaming and AI. Join a best‑in‑class team delivering validated IPs across standard and proprietary protocols.

You will develop test plans, create reusable verification components in SystemVerilog/UVM, and collaborate with architects, designers, and cross‑functional teams to meet product schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
• At least 5 years of verified experience in digital design verification.
• Background in unit/sub-system/SOC level verification and SystemVerilog expertise.
• Experience with random stimulus, functional coverage, and assertion-based verification.
• Experience with UVM/VMM and industry verification tools.

Responsibilities

• Verify digital design, golden models, and micro-architecture of SerDes IPs using UVM.
• Build reusable verification components, monitors, checkers and scoreboards with coverage-driven methodology.
• Define verification scope, develop infrastructure, and verify design correctness for product shipments.
• Write and implement test plans and thoroughly verify designs under tight schedules.
• Collaborate with architects, designers, and cross‑functional verification teams.

Skills

SystemVerilog

UVM

C/C++

Python

Perl

Debugging

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in EE/CS/CE

Job description

We're now looking for a Senior Digital Design Verification Engineer! NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a “learning machine” that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that are hard to solve, that only we can tackle, and that matter to the world. This is our life’s work, to amplify human imagination and intelligence. Make the choice to join our diverse team today!

As a Senior Digital Design Verification Engineer at NVIDIA, you'll verify the design and implementation of our cutting edge SerDes IPs. This ground breaking technology will enable and accelerate gaming, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and autonomous driving. We have put together a best-in-class team that delivers IPs that will be consumed by standard as well as industry-leading proprietary high-speed protocols!

What you’ll be doing:

• Verification of the digital design, golden models and micro-architecture of the SerDes IPs using advanced verification methodologies such as UVM.
• Build reusable bus functional models, monitors, checkers and scoreboards following coverage driven verification methodology.
• Responsible for understanding the design and implementation, define the verification scope, develop the verification infrastructure and verify the correctness of the design.
• Write and implement test plan and thoroughly verify a design in a product shipment focused / compressed schedule.
• Work with architects, designers, and pre and post silicon verification teams to accomplish your tasks.

What we need to see:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering
• At least 5 years of validated experience.
• Background in verification at Unit/Sub-system/SOC level and expertise in SystemVerilog a must.
• Experience using random stimulus along with functional coverage and assertion-based verification methodologies a must.
• Experience in verification methodologies like UVM/VMM and exposure to industry standard verification tools for simulation and debug.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Expertise in bus or interconnect protocols (e.g. PCI Express, USB, SATA) a huge plus.
• Experience in verifying complex SerDes system, understanding mixed-signal designs, and have experience in modeling of analog circuits a huge plus.
• Perl, Python, C/C++ programming language experience.
• Good debugging and analytical skills.
• Good interpersonal skills & dream to work as a phenomenal teammate.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3, and 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until April 12, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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