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From the employer's careers site First seen 29 Oct 2026 · Still live on 2 Nov 2026

ASIC Design Verification Engineer

Cisco San Jose, CA On-site senior full-time

Salary

$186,900 - $267,700 per year

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Description

You will be in the Silicon One development organization as an ASIC design verification engineer in San Jose, CA. You collaborate closely with verification engineers, designers, hardware and cross-functional teams to verify the ASIC in simulation, in emulation, and during ASIC bring-up.

Your Impact:

  • Maintaining existing DV environments and enhancing them
  • Construct test bench including scoreboard, agents, sequencers, and monitors for new blocks
  • Write test plan, develop test cases, debug regression failures and drive to module verification closure
  • Ensuring complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage
  • Use AI tools to develop innovative methods and processes to improve quality of design verification.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's with 8+ years or Master's degree with 6+ of relevant experience required; prior experience with System Verilog and UVM methodology
  • Prior experience in verifying complex blocks, cluster, and/or top level for ASIC/SoC
  • Prior experience building test benches from scratch, hands on experience with System Verilog constraints, structures and classes.
  • Prior experience with functional coverage and constrained random DV environments.
  • Scripting skills: Perl and/or Python scripting

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Strong domain experience in one or more protocols is a plus – PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, AHB/AXI, DDR, MMU.
  • Experience with Veloce/HAPS is a plus
  • Formal verification (iev/vc formal) knowledge is a plus

The starting salary range posted for this position is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Skills

Required

  • System Verilog
  • UVM methodology
  • ASIC/SoC verification
  • Perl
  • Python

Nice to have

  • PCIe
  • CXL
  • Ethernet
  • AHB/AXI
  • DDR
  • MMU
  • Veloce/HAPS
  • Formal verification
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