Design Verification Engineer, New Grad

SambaNova Systems • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, providing a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. Its Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) is a chip built on a dataflow architecture, and RDUs are packaged into SambaRack rack-scale hardware.

The Design Verification team verifies the RDU and builds SystemVerilog and UVM environments for chip-level control and initialization, including sequencing, state transitions, clocking, and recovery. The team works with architects, RTL designers, and firmware engineers.

As a new graduate Design Verification Engineer, you will develop tests, testbenches, checkers, and coverage in SystemVerilog and UVM for RDU features. You will run regressions, debug simulation failures, and collaborate with RTL designers to identify and fix bugs before tape-out.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Coursework or project experience in digital design and computer architecture.
• Experience with SystemVerilog or Verilog.
• Scripting experience in Python, Perl, TCL, or shell.
• Experience with UVM.
• Familiarity with constrained-random verification, functional coverage, and assertions.
• Familiarity with clock domain crossing concepts.

Nice To Haves

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude for verification development and debug.
• Internship experience in design verification.

Responsibilities

• Write and execute verification plans for chip-level control and initialization features.
• Build SystemVerilog and UVM testbench components, including sequences, checkers, assertions, and functional coverage.
• Write directed and constrained-random tests to find corner cases.
• Debug simulation and regression failures with RTL designers.
• Analyze functional and code coverage and close coverage gaps.

Benefits

• Equity and benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package.
• 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance.
• 77% premium coverage for dependent medical insurance.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Basic and voluntary life insurance.
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for health care, limited purpose, and dependent care.
• Headspace subscription.
• Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms.
• One Medical membership.
• Counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level