Silicon Design Verification Engineer
📌Santa Clara, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
💰 150000
hybrid
Type: Full-Time | Salary: $150K–$250K + Competitive Equity
Visa Sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, OPT Available
🚀 About the Opportunity
Initio Capital is hiring a Design Verification Engineer on behalf of one of the most ambitious chip startups in the U.S.—a stealth-mode team redefining the future of AI and analytics acceleration .
Backed by top-tier investors and built around a seasoned team from Apple, Intel, and Nvidia, this company is designing RISC-V–based silicon with tightly integrated AI acceleration and custom workloads in mind. This is an opportunity to work on deeply complex verification challenges that impact compute performance, efficiency, and reliability at the foundational layer of modern infrastructure.
🧠 About the Role
As a Silicon Verification Engineer , you'll take ownership of top-level verification for the company’s AI/analytics accelerator. You'll define and implement verification strategies, write test plans, build emulation-friendly testbenches, and partner with software and silicon teams to enable end-to-end validation. This role offers the chance to shape product and verification flow in a high-autonomy environment.
🔧 What You’ll Do
- Develop verification strategy and own DV execution for complex accelerator subsystems
- Write and maintain testbenches in SystemVerilog, C++, and Python
- Create coverage-driven and directed/random tests for full-chip and subsystem validation
- Collaborate with software, firmware, and architecture teams for co-simulation
- Build infrastructure for emulation, simulation, and hardware bring-up
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Deliver high-quality silicon verification aligned with aggressive execution timelines
- 5+ years of hands-on design verification (DV) experience
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Strong SystemVerilog, C++, and/or Python development skills
- Deep understanding of computer architecture, SoC design, and memory/cache subsystems
- Proven experience verifying CPUs, GPUs, or custom accelerators
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Familiarity with industry-standard DV methodologies (UVM, formal, coverage-driven, etc.)
- Experience enabling HW/SW co-simulation or working on firmware test coverage
- Past contributions to hardware/software co-design workflows
- Previous experience at early-stage silicon or systems startups
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Passion for AI/ML workloads, compute acceleration, or chip performance optimization
- Salary: $150K – $250K
- Equity: Meaningful early-stage grant
- Hybrid in Santa Clara, CA or Austin, TX
- H-1B, O-1, OPT sponsorship available
- Collaborate with industry leaders from the most respected names in semiconductors
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Work on a moonshot AI-silicon vision with deep technical impact and upside
Apply now to be considered for this high-impact role.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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