Role SummaryWe are seeking a high-caliber Sr. Staff Verification Engineer to join our ADAS and Inference Silicon team. You will be responsible for the end-to-end functional verification of our next-generation SoC.
Responsibilities- Drive end-to-end functional and performance verification of AI accelerator architectures: Ensure bit-accurate numerical integrity and high-bandwidth dataflow for production-scale CNN and Transformer workloads.
- Verification Methodology: Leverage SystemVerilog/UVM for Coverage-Driven Verification (CDV) to reach aggressive functional targets. Apply Formal Verification (SVA) to exhaustively prove corner cases in safety-critical arbiters, state machines, and concurrency logic where simulation falls short.
- Advanced Methodologies (nice-to-have): Strategize and Implement LLM-augmented workflows for Front End Development.
- Safety-Critical Verification (nice-to-have): Develop and execute verification plans compliant with ISO 26262 standards. Conduct Fault Injection Analysis (FIA) to verify safety mechanisms (ECC, Parity, BIST).
- Hardware-Software Co-Verification (nice-to-have): Collaborate with firmware teams using Emulation and FPGA prototyping to run full-stack software.
Qualifications- Experience: Typically 10+ years of industry experience in ASIC design verification. Engineers who have seen multiple chips from "concept to tape-out."
- Education: BS/MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
- Hardware Knowledge:
- Deep understanding of Computer Architecture.
- Memory hierarchies (Cache, DMA, and DDR/HBM).
- Interconnect protocols (NoC - Network on Chip).
- Low-power design verification (UPF/CPF).
- Bonus Skills / Experience:
- Specialized hardware like Systolic Arrays, Vector Processors, or Neural Processing Units (NPUs).
- Understanding of how CNN and Transformer networks map to hardware.
- Compilers and toolchains
Pay DisclosureThe salary range for this role is $237,000 - $296,000 for Palo Alto based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs. The successful candidate may be eligible for annual performance bonus and equity awards.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian's 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com.
You can apply for this role through careers.rivian.com (or through internal-careers-rivian.icims.com if you are a current employee). This job is not expected to be closed any sooner than April 30, 2026.
