Member of Technical Staff - Design Verification

About the Company

Architect is a frontier AI lab for chip design. We build AI models and tools for on-demand custom ASICs at scale, co-designing custom ASICs alongside evolving ML workloads to unlock new hardware capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own the verification strategy behind AI-generated designs taping out on leading foundries
• Review AI-driven test plans and validation strategies for internal and external SoC projects
• Provide domain-specific expertise to AI/ML teams regarding architectural and microarchitectural checks, coverage models, and interface protocols
• Define, drive, and coordinate validation, verification, and integration flows across multiple IPs
• Collaborate with architecture, design, and AI/ML leads to generate simulation- and emulation-ready collateral
• Track emerging trends in semiconductor verification and AI-driven design automation

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years (10+ preferred) of experience with advanced-node tapeouts
• Deep expertise in verification/validation, emulation, and architectural/system-level verification
• Strong coding skills in SystemVerilog, UVM, and C/C++
• Proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience in areas such as ARM/AMBA protocols, CPU subsystems, memory controllers, NoC, or NPU/ML accelerator cores
• Experience with simulation and emulation flows and FPGA prototyping

Preferred Qualifications

• SoC-level DV experience involving full system bring-up
• Deep experience with AMBA ACE protocols
• FPGA prototyping experience using Xilinx Vivado/Vitis
• Experience at frontier AI chip startups or tier-1 silicon companies