Principal ASIC Design Verification Engineer - Terawave
Blue Origin•Hutto, TX
About The Position
The Principal ASIC Verification Engineer serves as a technical authority for verification of advanced ASICs enabling next-generation satellite communication systems. This role sets verification strategy across one or more silicon programs and establishes robust methodologies for functionally complex, high-performance communication hardware. Blue Origin’s TeraWave network is a multi-orbit satellite communications constellation designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth through optically interconnected satellites in low Earth orbit and medium Earth orbit.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of ASIC/SoC verification experience.
- Expert-level knowledge of SystemVerilog, UVM, assertions, and verification signoff methodology.
- Proven success leading verification for complex chips or multiple tape-outs.
- Strong understanding of communication signal-processing hardware and system-level integration.
- Excellent technical leadership and cross-organizational communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Deep expertise in space-based communications, digital modems, phased-array processing, or payload processing.
- Experience with formal property verification, emulation, and performance validation.
- Familiarity with fault tolerance, mission-critical reliability, or radiation-aware verification considerations.
- Experience with architectural modeling and verification planning for hardware/software-partitioned systems.
- Strong record of technical innovation and process improvement.
Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end verification strategy for large satellite communication ASIC or SoC programs.
- Establish verification methodologies, infrastructure, and signoff criteria across block, subsystem, and SoC levels.
- Lead verification planning for complex communication functions, including modem pipelines, FEC engines, digital beamforming, packet processing, and control fabrics.
- Drive alignment among design, architecture, systems, firmware, and validation teams.
- Evaluate verification completeness through coverage, assertions, formal analysis, emulation, and silicon correlation.
- Resolve critical technical issues and direct root-cause analysis for the most complex functional failures.
- Guide development of reusable VIP, reference models, and regression automation frameworks.
- Mentor technical leaders and raise the overall verification maturity of the organization.
- Influence future verification roadmap, tool strategy, and reuse models.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Basic and supplemental life insurance.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability.
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%.
- Education Support Program.
- Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours.
- Up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses depending on role type and job level; amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
