Director, ASIC Verification

About the Role

We are 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 role will be performed onsite from our office in Santa Clara, CA.

Essential Duties & 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

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

• 8+ years of progressive ASIC/SOC verification, with 5+ years leading verification teams

• Demonstrable experience writing verification code, building testbenches, and closing coverage

• Multiple tapeouts in advanced process nodes where you owned both deep technical work and sign-off

• Hands-on experience with high-speed protocol IP - Ethernet, UCIe, UALink, or comparable

• Fluent across the full ASIC/SOC lifecycle - microarchitecture through tape-out - on designs integrating interconnect, I/O, and memory subsystems

• Executive communication skills; proven ability to manage risk, escalations, budget, and headcount on startup timelines

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in EE, CE, or related field

• Built a verification team from zero at an early-stage startup while delivering milestones personally

• Hands-on post-silicon bring-up, debug, and validation leadership

• AI/datacenter accelerator background; familiarity with LLM memory/dataloader bottlenecks

• Knowledge of DFT and its interaction with front-end verification

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonus and early-stage equity grant

• 100% employer-paid Health, Dental, and Vision coverage for you and your dependents

• 401(k) match with immediate vesting, and access to financial advisors to help you reach your financial goals

• 100% employer-paid Life, Disability, and AD&D insurance, plus a fitness stipend and wellness & mental health perks

• Generous PTO: 20 vacation days, 15 company holidays (including 3 floating days of your choosing)

• Daily lunch stipend

• Enterprise-level Claude & ChatGPT access with a generous token budget

• Well-equipped, sunny offices in Santa Clara, CA & Cambridge, MA with on-site parking and EV charging; on-site fitness center in Santa Clara; gym discounts near our Cambridge office

• Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance to one of our office hubs

• A collaborative, continuous-learning environment with smart, dedicated colleagues building the next generation of high-performance computing architecture

The Opportunity

• Impact: Humanity stands at the dawn of a new industrial revolution driven by AI-one with the potential to redefine how we live on this planet. We are tackling a fundamental challenge at the infrastructure layer: unlocking greater AI capability while dramatically improving efficiency. The work we do here compounds across state-of-the-art AI models, systems, and real-world applications.

• Timing: Breakthrough technology matters most when it meets the right time. Joining now means real ownership of the company and meaningful influence over product direction and execution. In this early-stage environment, your ideas shape the trajectory of the technology-not just its implementation. You’ll work from first principles, move quickly from insight to execution, and see your contributions directly reflected in what we build.

• Culture: You’ll work alongside a group of people who care deeply about rigor, clarity, and impact. We value thoughtful disagreement, fast learning, and intellectual fearlessness. This is a place where strong ideas shine, curiosity is encouraged, and growth is a daily practice-not a future promise.