Design Verification Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Manage, inspire, and grow a team of high-performing design verification engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and collaborative accountability.
• Allocating resources effectively across multiple parallel chip/block schedules.
• Verification Strategy & Architecture: Define global verification strategies, infrastructure, and execution plans for complex SoC and IP blocks. Own the testbench architecture from initial specifications down to structural sign-off.
• Methodology Champion: Drive standard-setting execution using industry-best paradigms, ranging from advanced functional metric tracking to pioneering automated flows. Lead the team across block, sub-system, and full-chip verification environments.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Align closely with Architecture, RTL Design, Physical Design, and Post-Silicon validation teams to identify coverage gaps, debug system-level failures, and ensure timely tape-out milestones.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field. 10+ years of deep, hands-on industry experience in pre-silicon ASIC/SoC Design Verification. 5+ years of dedicated engineering management or formal team leadership experience directly managing engineering headcount, performance reviews, and project delivery schedules. Proven mastery building scalable UVM-compliant testbenches from scratch.
• Preferred Qualifications: Advanced Education (Master's degree or Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Exposure to, or hands-on experience implementing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques within verification pipelines. Experience with multi-protocol high-speed interfaces (e.g., PCIe Gen6/7, CXL, HBM3, NVLink). Demonstrated capability to manage globally distributed engineering teams.

Pay

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

• United States of America: Annual Salary USD 174,000 - 352,500 in California

Benefits

Health & Wellbeing
Personal & Professional Development
Unconditional Inclusion

About the Role

We are seeking a visionary and technically rigorous Design Verification Manager to lead our world-class silicon verification team. In this pivotal leadership role, you will architect, guide, and execute advanced verification strategies for high-performance, next-generation semiconductor products.

Job Description

We are seeking a visionary and technically rigorous Design Verification Manager to lead our world-class silicon verification team. In this pivotal leadership role, you will architect, guide, and execute advanced verification strategies for high-performance, next-generation semiconductor products. As a manager, you will bridge the gap between high-level architectural complexity and flawlessly executed silicon. You will be responsible for leading an elite engineering group, driving the adoption of cutting-edge methodology, and ensuring zero-bug tape-outs.

What We Can Offer You

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing. We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US

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HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/ Individual with Disabilities employer

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