Principal Design Verification Engineer (AI)

Acceler8 TalentCA, United States

30+ days ago

Job description

Acceler8Talent recently started recruiting for a semiconductor startup who is at the forefront of AI hardware innovation , developing specialized silicon for one of the most transformative technologies today— transformer models . These models power everything from advanced natural language processing (like ChatGPT) to cutting-edge machine learning systems. They recently received their Series A funding of $120 million .

They are looking for a Principal Design Verification Engineer to join their team! You will have the unique opportunity to lead the design verification for products that would be impossible with GPUs, like tree-of-thought agents and ultra-low-latency audio chat bots.

Compensation : $250k-$300k base + equity

Location : San Francisco Bay area

Job Responsibilities

Ensure shippable first silicon for their first ASIC.
Develop test benches for blocks and IP.

Job Requirements

At least 8 years of relevant experience developing scalable test benches.

Proven understanding of System Verilog testbench language.

Experience with high speed SerDes.

Willing to start quickly.

Passionate about modern AIs like ChatGPT, and willing to learn about them on the job.

Desired Experience

Experience with chip-to-chip interconnects and HBM3 / HBM3E technologies.

Familiarity with transformer models and machine learning.

Familiarity with numerical representations and functions.

Ability to program with Python or another scripting language.

Familiarity with open-source verification tools like Verilator.