Principal Design Verification Engineer (Design or DV)
Mountain View, CAJobPosted todayStill listed today
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The Principal Design Verification Engineer will technically lead a subsystem as a design or DV engineer, collaborating across teams to reuse components and deliver silicon from concept through bring-up. The role provides technical leadership through mentorship and teamwork, and works with architecture, design, verification, physical design, DFT, firmware, and post-silicon teams. The posting seeks expertise in design or DV, particularly in memory technologies, and experience with AI/ML SoCs.
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Technically lead A Subsystem as a design or DV engineer. Collaborate across teams on vertical and horizontal reuse of components. Provide technical leadership through mentorship and strong teamwork. Work effectively with Architecture, Design, DV, PD, DFT, firmware, and post-silicon teams to debug system-level issues and deliver silicon from concept through bring-up. Understanding of many of the following: complex subsystems (such as PCIE, HBM, imaging or control), fabrics, AMBA AXI/CHI protocols, DMA engines, NoCs, and high-throughput data buffering and movement. Design includes but not limited to - Bandwidth, latency, utilization, and power tradeoffs while driving synthesis, timing constraints, floor-planning awareness, and performance tuning (Design). Expertise in design or DV domains, especially on memory technologies. Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience. Experience debugging Register Transfer Level (RTL) designs as well as simulation and/or emulation environments. Experience with design quality and static checks, DFT implementation and hand off to physical design. Expertise in design or DV domains Experience with verification for multiple product cycles from definition to Silicon, including writing test plans, developing tests, debugging failures and coverage signoff in C++ and Universal Verification Methodology (UVM). Experience of working on Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) SoCs Experience in Scripting language such as Python or Perl
How this job compares
Set against the 2,417 open Design Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$123–190K/yr248 salary ranges
- US median$40–49/hr94 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 348 open Design Engineer jobs in California and 2,417 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Apple19 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,008 postings).
- Education
- 1,638 of the 2,417 open Design Engineer jobs (68%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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