ASIC Design Verification Engineer – Slingshot

Job Title

ASIC Design Verification Engineer – Slingshot

Role Summary

Work on pre-silicon design verification for HPE's Slingshot interconnect used in high-performance computing and AI systems. The role is part of the Slingshot verification team and focuses on ensuring functional correctness through testbenches, coverage, regression, and automation.

Position is hybrid, based in Fort Collins, CO, collaborating with designers and project leads across a distributed organization.

Experience Level

Mid-level - typically requires around 5 years of VLSI design, verification, or implementation experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include implementing and improving verification flows at block and system level, automating regressions, and driving bug closure.

• Develop and extend the team's design verification methodology.
• Implement SystemVerilog and UVM/OVM testbench components, including bus functional models.
• Plan and implement block-level scoreboards and checkers for functional verification.
• Write and analyze functional coverage to identify verification gaps.
• Triage regression failures and drive defect resolution to closure.
• Use scripting, automation, and AI-assisted tools to improve verification efficiency.
• Collaborate with designers and project leads on design status and issue resolution.
• Mentor and guide less experienced verification engineers.

Requirements

Key must-have skills and experience for successful performance in this role.

• Must-have: ~5 years of experience in VLSI design, verification, or implementation.
• Must-have: Strong knowledge of SystemVerilog and OVM or UVM methodologies.
• Must-have: Proficiency in programming and scripting languages, hardware description languages, and common EDA tools.
• Must-have: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a distributed team.
• Must-have: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Nice-to-have: Experience with AI-assisted verification tools and automation frameworks.
• Nice-to-have: Prior experience building scoreboards, checkers, and bus functional models at block or system level.
• Nice-to-have: Mentoring or coaching experience.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent; or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Headquarters: Spring, TX, United States

Global enterprise technology company delivering hybrid cloud, edge-to-cloud platforms, servers, storage, networking, and IT services to help organizations build, run, and secure applications and infrastructure at scale.