About the role

  • Director, Design Verification leading a new verification and emulation team in India for innovative semiconductor solutions. Collaborating across global teams to develop and drive verification strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, and grow a verification and emulation engineering team in India, owning hiring, mentoring, and retention from day one
  • Collaborate with US-based architecture, design, and verification leads to develop verification strategies for complex SoCs, chiplets, and multi-generation product roadmaps
  • Own the verification of complex systems end-to-end—from verification planning through coverage closure and tapeout
  • Drive the technical direction of the team: developing innovative verification strategies, maintaining high-quality code standards, and pushing the state of the art in methodology and automation
  • Develop and maintain long-term verification plans spanning multiple product generations
  • Own schedules, define progress metrics, and provide clear visibility into execution status across sites
  • Provide hands-on technical mentorship, actively identifying improvements in methodologies, techniques, and infrastructure
  • Partner with software and emulation teams to enable HW-SW co-development and accelerate silicon validation
  • Lead DV, emulation and post silicon validation execution with zero defect mindset.
  • Define DV, emulation and post silicon validation scope.
  • Define execution timelines working closely with stakeholders.
  • Set goals, monitor, and take steps to keep the execution on track.
  • Define DV methodology and verification strategies.
  • Drive definition and implementation of DV TB architectures.
  • Collaborate with Architecture, Design, DFT, PD, FW and system teams for successful product execution.
  • Lead tool evaluation and selection.
  • Drive continuous productivity improvements through incremental and forklift changes.
  • Monitoring industry DV trends and adapting to key trends.
  • Hire, build and retain high performance engineering team.
  • Address continuous training and development needs of the team.

Requirements

  • BS degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science with 15+ years of relevant industry experience in semiconductor verification or emulation
  • 10+ years of experience managing Design Verification, Emulation, or related engineering teams
  • Demonstrated ability to recruit, mentor, and retain strong verification and emulation engineers—people want to come work with you
  • Capable of leading technical direction while staying hands-on: developing verification strategies, reviewing code, and making architectural decisions
  • Strong experience with cross-site team coordination and collaboration
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to operate effectively across time zones and organizational boundaries
  • Preferred: Experience with full-chip verification, development, and emulation of complex designs targeting data center, server, or enterprise networking applications
  • Expert-level experience developing verification infrastructure for IP, subsystem, chiplet, and SoC-level environments
  • Experience with one or more high-speed I/O technologies: DDR, PCIe, CXL, or Ethernet
  • Knowledge of industry-standard SoC components: bus fabrics, I/O devices, and processor subsystems
  • Knowledge of HW-SW co-development workflows and silicon validation cycles

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Great benefits
  • Shared collaboration
  • Transparency
  • Inclusivity

Job title

Director, Design Verification

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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