Director, ASIC Verification

Netpreme•Santa Clara, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Director of ASIC Verification who leads from the front: you'll own verification strategy, sign-off, and the team — and you'll also be one of the strongest hands-on verification engineers here, writing testbenches, closing coverage, and debugging the hardest failures. This role will be performed onsite from our office in Santa Clara, CA.

Requirements

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
8+ years of progressive ASIC/SOC verification, with 5+ years leading verification teams
Demonstrable experience writing verification code, building testbenches, and closing coverage
Multiple tapeouts in advanced process nodes where you owned both deep technical work and sign-off
Hands-on experience with high-speed protocol IP — Ethernet, UCIe, UALink, or comparable
Fluent across the full ASIC/SOC lifecycle — microarchitecture through tape-out — on designs integrating interconnect, I/O, and memory subsystems
Executive communication skills; proven ability to manage risk, escalations, budget, and headcount on startup timelines

Nice To Haves

PhD in EE, CE, or related field
Built a verification team from zero at an early-stage startup while delivering milestones personally
Hands-on post-silicon bring-up, debug, and validation leadership
AI/datacenter accelerator background; familiarity with LLM memory/dataloader bottlenecks
Knowledge of DFT and its interaction with front-end verification

Responsibilities

Own verification end-to-end: strategy, methodology (UVM, formal, emulation, coverage-driven closure), tape-out sign-off for Netpreme silicon, IP, subsystems and post silicon bringup support including test-vector generation.
Architect and author verification environments and testplans, review testbench code line-by-line, and personally drive debug of the hardest protocol, coverage, and bring-up issues
Recruit, lead, and develop a world-class verification organization that treats technical depth as the currency
Present verification readiness, metrics, and risk posture to engineering leadership with conviction

Benefits

Competitive salary with performance-based bonus and early-stage equity grant
100% employer-paid Health, Dental, and Vision coverage for you and your dependents
401(k) match with immediate vesting, and access to financial advisors to help you reach your financial goals
100% employer-paid Life, Disability, and AD&D insurance, plus a fitness stipend and wellness & mental health perks
Generous PTO: 20 vacation days, 15 company holidays (including 3 floating days of your choosing)
Daily lunch stipend
Enterprise-level Claude & ChatGPT access with a generous token budget
Well-equipped, sunny offices in Santa Clara, CA & Cambridge, MA with on-site parking and EV charging; on-site fitness center in Santa Clara; gym discounts near our Cambridge office
Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance to one of our office hubs
A collaborative, continuous-learning environment with smart, dedicated colleagues building the next generation of high-performance computing architecture