Staff/Sr. Staff Design Verification Engineer
LightmatterJob Title
Staff / Sr. Staff Design Verification Engineer
Role Summary
As a Design Verification Engineer you'll work with digital, analog, and photonic teams to verify integrated devices. You will develop UVM testbenches, mixed-signal and AMS models, and emulation-based flows to ensure functional and performance goals are met across block and full-chip designs.
Close collaboration with architects, digital designers, analog/photonics engineers, and the architecture team is required to drive verification from pre-silicon through post-silicon validation.
Experience Level
Senior — minimum 8 years of design verification experience; hiring for Staff and Sr. Staff levels depending on experience and interview performance.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include:
- Define and improve DV methodologies for integrated digital, analog, and photonic systems, with emphasis on emulation.
- Create and execute test plans to meet functional and performance objectives for tapeouts.
- Develop reusable, scalable UVM testbench components and verification environments for simulation and emulation.
- Collaborate with architects, DV engineers, digital designers, and analog/photonics designers to establish validation flows.
- Integrate vendor and internal analog IP and develop behavioral models for analog components.
- Perform block-level and full-chip verification and close coverage to satisfy DV signoff requirements.
- Leverage mixed-signal simulations, emulation, and performance modeling to validate system behavior.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and experience:
- Minimum 8 years of design verification experience with SystemVerilog.
- Expertise developing with the UVM library.
- 2+ years of Python for verification and scripting.
- Experience with industry simulators (Xcelium, ModelSim, Questa, VCS).
- Experience with mixed-signal simulations and emulation-based verification.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate across disciplines.
- Ability to comply with U.S. export control laws.
Nice-to-have:
- Post-silicon validation and debug experience.
- AMS verification experience.
- Formal verification, emulation platform development, or performance modeling experience.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Master's degree or higher in a related field is preferred for more senior levels; equivalent experience is acceptable.
About the Company
Company: Lightmatter
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Lightmatter develops photonic AI data-center infrastructure and optical chips for extreme-scale AI and HPC. The company invented the Passage 3D‑stacked photonics engine to provide high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnects across large-scale processors and raised $400M in Series D financing at a reported $4.4B valuation.
