MTS SoC Design Verification Engineer

Cspeed IO is a stealth start up backed by Sutter Hills Ventures and Atreides Capital - headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.  Our executive team has a demonstrated track record of building and scaling category-defining semiconductor and infrastructure businesses at companies like Broadcom, Lumentum, Tesla, Apple, Samsung, Intel, and VMware.

Cspeed IO is developing next-generation optical semiconductor solutions for the AI infrastructure market, focused on enabling true “scale-up” architectures.  Our mission is to replace traditional copper interconnects with advanced fiber-optic technologies that overcome the limitations of existing optics solutions and architectures.

SoC Verification – MTS SoC DV Engineer 
Experience: 8–10 Years 

Role Summary 

This role serves as the hands-on technical lead for SoC Verifications. The position drives testbench architecture, scalable and reusable verification strategies, testbench development, verification sign-off, documentation, and team mentoring. Key responsibilities include functional and data path verification. The role ensures comprehensive verification sign-off and delivers a robust, high-quality, and reusable verification environment aligned with project objectives. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Define and drive verification strategy across sub-system and SoC-level domains. 
• Develop verification environment from the scratch for complex SoC leveraging both C-based and UVM methodologies  
• Develop and manage comprehensive test plans and coverage models. 
• Collaborate with design teams to define system boot, reset sequence, and design configuration for various use-cases. 
• Collaborate with design team to define debug architecture and debug/trace verification.
• Manage project milestones, deliverables, schedules, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Lead waveform and code review with team members and own technical documentation. 
• Mentor and grow teams of DV engineers, including external contractors.
• Take full ownership of verification and final sign-off, following multiple review cycles that encompass functional correctness, power analysis, performance validation, gate-level simulations, and comprehensive coverage closure
• Support firmware/software bring-up and post-silicon debug. 

Required Skills 

• Strong hands-on experience in System Verilog and UVM methodology.  
•  Solid understanding of SoC TB architecture and test-plan creation
• Expertise in power-aware verification, including UPF-based methodologies and gate-level simulation. 
• Experience in DV sign-off flows, rigorous checklist-based tracking to ensure completeness      
• Strong debug skills across RTL, integration, and HW–SW interaction.  

Added Advantage 

• Python/TCL scripting experience and post-silicon bring-up 
• Performance modeling and benchmarking.