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The industry is still leaning on a ten-year-old hardware blueprint that has reached its limit. A new paradigm that is faster and more efficient will be the biggest economic opportunity of the next century and create the most important company of the next decade. The OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) is the first accelerator architected specifically for decode. Rack-scale co-design of logic, data movement, packaging, optics and interconnect enables a step change in system level performance.\nThe Role\nWe are seeking highly skilled and motivated Senior / Staff Digital Verification Engineers with a strong background in CMOS digital design and verification to take ownership of the functional correctness of high-speed, real-time data-processing silicon, from early algorithm modelling through verified RTL, sign-off, and silicon bring-up.\nYou will join a multidisciplinary group creating groundbreaking hardware where digital, optical, and mixed-signal domains intersect.\nThe ideal candidate brings deep expertise in digital verification methodologies, a solid understanding of hardware architecture, and a passion for building provably correct, high-performance systems that underpin breakthrough AI hardware.\nResponsibilities\nOwn end-to-end verification of high-throughput digital pipelines supporting multi-GSPS input rates, continuous streaming data paths, deep pipelining, and robust hand-shaking in advanced CMOS nodes\n\nDevelop and maintain comprehensive verification environments using SystemVerilog/UVM, including constrained-random testing, coverage closure, and regression automation\n\nDefine and implement assertion-based verification strategies for control logic, data-path correctness, CDC/RDC, and protocol compliance\n\nApply formal verification techniques (property checking, assertions, equivalence checking) to complement simulation-based verification and accelerate bug discovery\n\nModel and validate algorithms using MATLAB/Simulink or Python, ensuring functional equivalence from algorithmic models through RTL and gate-level sign-off\n\nSupport FPGA prototyping and silicon bring-up by developing targeted testcases, debug strategies, and post-silicon validation plans\n\nCollaborate closely with digital design, optical-hardware, mixed-signal, and software teams to ensure correct integration across clock domains, interfaces, and firmware abstractions\n\nAnalyse verification results to identify root causes, drive design fixes, and improve verification efficiency and reuse\n\nContribute to verification methodology development, documentation, and design/verification reviews; mentor junior engineers where appropriate\n\nSkills & Experience\n5+ years of hands-on experience in digital verification for high-performance ASICs or SoCs\n\nOwnership of verification for at least one complex block or subsystem processing continuous real-time data streams\n\nStrong proficiency in SystemVerilog, assertions (SVA), and modern verification methodologies (e.g. UVM. CocoTB)\n\nProven experience verifying designs operating in GHz-class clock domains, including CDC/RDC analysis\n\nFamiliarity with industry-standard EDA flows: RTL simulation, formal verification, linting, CDC/RDC, STA, power-intent (UPF/CPF), and gate-level simulation\n\nExperience verifying high-speed IP such as SerDes, DDR/HBM, PCIe, Ethernet, or similar interfaces\n\nProficiency with MATLAB/Simulink or Python/NumPy for algorithm modelling, fixed-point analysis, and test-vector generation\n\nSolid grounding in digital design principles, computer architecture, DSP fundamentals, and semiconductor basics\n\nClear communicator who collaborates effectively across disciplines and is comfortable operating in a fast-moving, evolving environment\n\nNice to have\nTape-out experience on an advanced process node\n\nDeep hands-on experience with formal verification methodologies, including property decomposition, and coverage-driven formal on tools such as Jasper\n\nExposure to coherent optical links or photonic-electronic co-design\n\nFamiliarity with AI/ML workloads, systolic arrays, or tensor-processing architectures\n\nExpertise in arithmetic pipeline verification\n\nExpertise in processor and ISA verification\n\nContributions to open-source RTL, verification frameworks, or FPGA platforms\n\nCompensation & Equity\nCompetitive Salary: Commensurate with your experience, skills, and location\n\nEquity & Ownership: Meaningful stock options. You’re not just joining the mission; you’re owning a piece of it\n\nProximity Bonus: We value your time. To minimise your commute and maximise your life, we offer an annual Living-Local Bonus if your residence is within 20 minutes of the office\n\nRetirement Benefits: Employer-contributed retirement plans to help you build long-term financial security.\n\nDue to U.S. export control regulations, candidates’ eligibility to work at OLIX depends on their most recent citizenship or permanent residency status. We are generally unable to consider applicants whose most recent citizenship or permanent residence is in certain restricted countries (currently including Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Russia, Belarus, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Venezuela). 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