Role Overview

We are looking for talented Design Verification Engineers to help verify and deliver Velaura's next-generation Physical AI SoC. In this role, you will work closely with architects, RTL engineers, software engineers, and system teams to verify complex hardware blocks and system-level behavior across the entire platform.You will help establish confidence in the correctness, performance, reliability, and safety of the architecture-from individual RTL blocks to complete HW/SW systems running real-world workloads. We welcome engineers at all experience levels who enjoy understanding systems, finding corner cases, and solving challenging technical problems.

Responsibilities
• Develop and execute verification strategies for key portions of the Velaura SoC.
• Build verification environments using SystemVerilog, UVM, C/C++, assertions, formal verification, emulation, and related methodologies.
• Collaborate with architects and RTL engineers to define verification plans, coverage goals, and correctness criteria.
• Verify compute engines, memory subsystems, interconnect fabrics, control processors, DMA engines, and other critical SoC infrastructure.
• Perform HW/SW co-verification involving firmware, drivers, runtime software, and operating system interactions.
• Verify performance, latency, bandwidth, QoS, and real-time system behavior under representative workloads.
• Develop assertions, checkers, scoreboards, and automated verification infrastructure.
• Participate in emulation, FPGA prototyping, and pre-silicon software bring-up activities.
• Drive bug investigation, root-cause analysis, and debug across hardware and software boundaries.
• Post-silicon debug and root cause analysis.
• Leverage modern engineering tools, including AI-assisted verification workflows, to improve productivity, quality, and coverage.
• Contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications
• Experience verifying complex digital systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture, microarchitecture, SoC architecture and digital design fundamentals.
• Experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, C/C++, assertions, coverage-driven verification, and related methodologies.
• Familiarity with formal verification techniques and tools.
• Understanding of memory systems, interconnect fabrics, caches, DMA engines, processors, or accelerator architectures.
• Experience debugging complex system-level issues.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, multidisciplinary engineering environment.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with one or more of the following standards: ISO 26262, IEC 61508, IEC 61511, ISO 13849
• Experience with AI, machine learning, or edge AI hardware.
• Familiarity with robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, or industrial automation systems.
• Experience verifying QoS, latency-sensitive, or real-time systems.
• Experience with HW/SW co-verification and system-level validation.
• Exposure to performance modeling, profiling, and workload characterization.
• Experience using modern AI tools and workflows to accelerate engineering productivity.
• Background in CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, networking and communications silicon, storage and data movement architectures, robotics and autonomous systems, automotive and ADAS platforms, aerospace and defense systems,
real-time and safety-critical computing, or functional safety architectures and methodologies.

$75,000 - $275,000 a year

Compensation & Benefits

At Velaura, we believe exceptional talent deserves exceptional rewards. Compensation for this role includes a competitive base salary, performance-based incentives, and equity participation, allowing team members to share in the company's long-term success.

Your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

In addition to compensation, Velaura offers a comprehensive benefits package that may include medical, dental, and vision coverage; paid time off; flexible work arrangements; professional development opportunities; and other benefits designed to support the well-being and growth of our team.

Velaura is committed to pay equity and transparency and regularly benchmarks compensation to ensure we remain competitive in the market.