Senior Staff Design Verification Engineer - Equity

Cerebras; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a senior Design Verification engineer to ensure first-silicon quality and scalable testbenches. You will collaborate across architecture, RTL, firmware and validation to verify complex silicon and drive test coverage.

Ideal candidates bring 15+ years in Design Verification, strong SystemVerilog/DPI/UVM skills, and experience with simulators and coverage tooling. The role offers challenging problems and a fast-growing AI hardware platform.

Qualifications

• Experience with SystemVerilog testbenches, DPI, and UVM.
• Proven ability to develop scalable and portable testbenches.
• Strong programming skills and OO design practices.
• Experience with simulators, waveform viewers, automation, coverage collection, and gate-level simulations.

Responsibilities

• Work with architects, designers, post silicon and software engineers to ensure a high-quality design that works first silicon.
• Develop and implement verification strategies, detailed tests and coverage plans based on micro-architecture.
• Create verification methodologies and reusable environments, including components such as stimulus, checkers, assertions, and coverage.
• Implement tests, manage regressions, gather coverage, and debug test failures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including architecture, RTL design, physical design, firmware, and validation.
• Analyze and debug complex issues across simulation, emulation, and silicon bring-up phases.
• Continuously enhances verification infrastructure and flows to improve efficiency and quality.
• Contribute to the evolution of the overall verification methodology and best practices across the organization.

Skills

SystemVerilog testbench

DPI

UVM

Object-oriented design

Testbench architecture

Verification tools

Python

Perl

Communication

Self-motivated

Design Verification experience

Debugging

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a senior Design Verification engineer to ensure first-silicon quality and scalable testbenches. You will collaborate across architecture, RTL, firmware and validation to verify complex silicon and drive test coverage.

Ideal candidates bring 15+ years in Design Verification, strong SystemVerilog/DPI/UVM skills, and experience with simulators and coverage tooling. The role offers challenging problems and a fast-growing AI hardware platform.