Principal Design Verification Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of SambaNova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into SambaRack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value.</span></p></div><h3><strong>About the team</strong></h3> <p>SambaNova's RDU is the processor behind our inference systems, and design verification ensures quality and reliability before production. The team owns verification for block, full-chip, and gate-level benches, performance verification, coverage closure, and the emulation and FPGA prototypes.</p> <h3><strong>About the role</strong></h3> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">SambaNova is looking for a Principal Design Verification Engineer to own verification for  our next-generation RDU, the reconfigurable dataflow silicon behind our machine learning and AI systems. This is a senior individual-contributor role where you'll own the test plan, testbench architecture, coverage model, and sign-off criteria, while shaping the team-wide infrastructure, reuse patterns, and verification practices.</p> <div data-testid="transcript-trailing"> <div class="flow-root"> <div> <div class="ml-[calc(var(--msg-text-inset,0.5rem)_-_0.25rem)] mt-6 flex items-center transition-transform duration-300 ease-out"> <div class="p-1 -translate-x-px" data-testid="chat-footer-spark"><span id="_r_bj_" class="inline-flex" data-base-ui-tooltip-trigger=""></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">You'll work alongside principal engineers from the design, architecture, compiler, and runtime teams who have built and evolved this verification environment across several generations of silicon, to verify the chip against production ML workloads.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <p>Some of your responsibilities will include...</p> <ul> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own verification end to end for a major subsystem of the RDU: test plan, testbench architecture, coverage model, and sign-off criteria</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Build the coverage model for your area, set the closure bar, and drive it to closure ahead of tape-out</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Develop testbench components, agents, checkers, and stimulus at block, full-chip, system, and gate level</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Serve as the technical authority for verification of your subsystem: review and arbitrate testbench design decisions, and lead debug on the hardest failures</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own regression health and failure triage for your area: drive root cause, not just reproduction</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Verify functional and performance behavior</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Advance DV methodology beyond your own area: reusable infrastructure, verification IP integration, and AI-assisted verification workflows the rest of the team adopts</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Contribute to emulation and FPGA prototyping, and support silicon bring-up and post-silicon debug in the lab</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Set the technical bar through design and DV reviews, and mentor engineers to raise the level of the team's verification practice</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Required qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">BS or MS in EE, CS, or CE with 7+ years (or equivalent) of industry experience in ASIC design verification</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Deep hands-on expertise in SystemVerilog and SVA with a standard methodology (UVM, OVM, or VMM), plus scripting in Python and C/C++</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Full-cycle DV ownership from test plan through tape-out on at least one complex ASIC or major subsystem, including owning a coverage model to closure</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience verifying digital logic in a CPU, GPU, SoC, or comparably complex ASIC</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Track record of debugging hard, intermittent, or low-reproducibility pre-silicon failures to root cause</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Demonstrated technical leadership without formal authority: setting direction in reviews, arbitrating testbench decisions, and mentoring engineers</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Working knowledge of modern computer architecture and of machine learning acceler