Senior ASIC Verification Engineer
NVIDIAJob Title
Senior ASIC Verification Engineer
Role Summary
Join NVIDIA's ASIC verification team in Austin to verify GPU designs used across consumer graphics and AI products. The role focuses on developing verification infrastructure and testbenches to ensure correctness of design, architecture, and micro-architecture prior to tape-out.
Experience Level
Senior - requires approximately 5 years of relevant ASIC verification experience.
Responsibilities
Responsible for planning and executing verification activities to validate GPU ASIC designs.
- Verify design and implementation of industry-leading GPU ASICs at unit and system levels.
- Apply advanced methodologies (for example, UVM) including random stimulus, functional coverage, and assertions.
- Define verification scope, develop infrastructure, and build testbenches and automation.
- Validate architecture and golden models against micro-architecture and RTL.
- Collaborate with architects, RTL designers, firmware, and system verification teams to resolve issues.
- Debug failures, analyze root causes, and drive fixes to closure.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and experience; nice-to-have items listed separately.
- 5+ years of ASIC verification experience focusing on complex digital designs.
- Proven experience with SystemVerilog or similar hardware verification languages.
- Experience using verification tools and flows (for example, VCS, waveform debuggers, simulators).
- Strong skills in building testbench environments for unit- and system-level verification and in using functional coverage and assertions.
- Proficiency in C programming and strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented concepts.
- Solid understanding of computer architecture and digital design fundamentals.
- Excellent debugging and analytical skills.
- Nice-to-have: prior experience verifying processor pipelines.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field - or equivalent practical experience.
About the Company
Company: NVIDIA
Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA
NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.
