Director, Design Verification

Role Overview

• Build, lead, and grow a verification and emulation engineering team in India, owning hiring, mentoring, and retention from day one
• Collaborate with US-based architecture, design, and verification leads to develop verification strategies for complex SoCs, chiplets, and multi-generation product roadmaps
• Own the verification of complex systems end-to-end—from verification planning through coverage closure and tapeout
• Drive the technical direction of the team: developing innovative verification strategies, maintaining high-quality code standards, and pushing the state of the art in methodology and automation
• Develop and maintain long-term verification plans spanning multiple product generations
• Own schedules, define progress metrics, and provide clear visibility into execution status across sites
• Provide hands-on technical mentorship, actively identifying improvements in methodologies, techniques, and infrastructure
• Partner with software and emulation teams to enable HW-SW co-development and accelerate silicon validation
• Lead DV, emulation and post silicon validation execution with zero defect mindset.
• Define DV, emulation and post silicon validation scope.
• Define execution timelines working closely with stakeholders.
• Set goals, monitor, and take steps to keep the execution on track.
• Define DV methodology and verification strategies.
• Drive definition and implementation of DV TB architectures.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Design, DFT, PD, FW and system teams for successful product execution.
• Lead tool evaluation and selection.
• Drive continuous productivity improvements through incremental and forklift changes.
• Monitoring industry DV trends and adapting to key trends.
• Hire, build and retain high performance engineering team.
• Address continuous training and development needs of the team.

Requirements

• BS degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science with 15+ years of relevant industry experience in semiconductor verification or emulation
• 10+ years of experience managing Design Verification, Emulation, or related engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, mentor, and retain strong verification and emulation engineers—people want to come work with you
• Capable of leading technical direction while staying hands-on: developing verification strategies, reviewing code, and making architectural decisions
• Strong experience with cross-site team coordination and collaboration
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to operate effectively across time zones and organizational boundaries
• Preferred: Experience with full-chip verification, development, and emulation of complex designs targeting data center, server, or enterprise networking applications
• Expert-level experience developing verification infrastructure for IP, subsystem, chiplet, and SoC-level environments
• Experience with one or more high-speed I/O technologies: DDR, PCIe, CXL, or Ethernet
• Knowledge of industry-standard SoC components: bus fabrics, I/O devices, and processor subsystems
• Knowledge of HW-SW co-development workflows and silicon validation cycles

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Great benefits
• Shared collaboration
• Transparency
• Inclusivity