Senior SoC Design Verification Engineer — PCIe

Job Title

Senior SoC Design Verification Engineer — PCIe

Role Summary

Senior engineer responsible for pre-silicon verification of PCIe logic across advanced AI chiplets and SoCs. Work with the SoC verification team to ensure connectivity, protocol compliance, interoperability, and features required for successful silicon bring-up.

Experience Level

Senior-level. No explicit years-of-experience guidance provided in the source.

Responsibilities

Accountable for designing, running, and improving PCIe verification flows and for driving cross-team resolution of verification issues.

• Develop and maintain verification environments and testbenches for PCIe controller and PHY-facing logic.
• Create, refine, and execute tests for link training, enumeration, power management, error handling, and data movement.
• Measure and close coverage gaps; analyze failures and lead debug with RTL, architecture, and system teams.
• Automate protocol testing, interoperability validation, and repeatable flows for silicon bring-up.
• Integrate verification workflows with platform validation and productivity tools, including AI-driven automation where applicable.
• Collaborate across disciplines to ensure timely verification milestones for tapeout and bring-up.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience; followed by a few nice-to-have items.

• Must-have: Strong expertise in UVM-based verification and experience verifying PCIe controller and PHY-facing logic, including LTSSM and protocol flows.
• Must-have: Practical experience with PCIe Gen4/Gen5 features, compliance concepts, and interoperability testing.
• Must-have: Proven ability to write and execute verification scenarios, debug complex failures, and close coverage gaps.
• Must-have: Experience automating verification flows and scripting for productivity (e.g., Python or similar).
• Nice-to-have: Familiarity with Cocotb or similar co-simulation frameworks and experience integrating AI-driven automation into DV workflows.
• Nice-to-have: Prior work on high-performance system-level connectivity or multi-chiplet SoC verification.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; proactive and detail-oriented work style.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Tenstorrent

Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States

Tenstorrent is a technology company focused on designing innovative computing solutions. They are known for their expertise in the development of advanced hardware, including ASICs and SoCs, aimed at enhancing performance and efficiency in various applications.