Digital Verification Engineer

About the role

We are looking for ASIC Design Verification Engineers with strong CPU, ASIC design and verification fundamentals to work in Neuralink’s System-on-Chip (SoC) department under the Implant Team. This position offers a rare and unique opportunity to have a high impact in realizing state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces. The team delivers architecture and logic implementation of digital modules with a strong focus in high-throughput low-power digital signal processing (DSP). We have crafted a team of exceptional engineers whose mission is to push the frontiers of what is possible today and define the future.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation flows and scripts (Python, Perl, Makefile, Tcl, UNIX shell)
• Set up code coverage and regression testing
• Build test benches, test, and debug complex system-on-chip designs
• Work on complex digital systems from architecture, microarchitecture, RTL, verification, and physical design using industry-standard tools
• Perform formal verification and low-power gate-level simulations
• Engage in lab system bring-up, write diagnostics, and debug in lab environments

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience in digital ASIC verification
• Excellence in SystemVerilog
• Experience with code coverage and regression setup

Qualifications

• Experience working on complex digital systems from architecture to physical design
• Experience in formal verification
• Functional modeling and logic verification with SystemVerilog, SystemC/C++
• Experience with IEEE-1801 (UPF) based design simulation flows
• Experience with low-power gate-level simulations and formal verification flows
• Strong hands-on experience in verification methodologies such as UVM
• Knowledge of ARM/RISC-V processors and AMBA bus
• Knowledge of power-aware verification
• Experience with FPGA/emulation

Pay

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $131,000—$243,000 USD. In addition to base salary, Neuralink offers equity compensation in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all full-time employees.

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan
• Paid holidays
• Commuter benefits
• Meals provided
• 401(k) plan (after 1,000 hours for interns)
• Parental leave (excludes temporary employees and interns)
• Flexible time off (excludes temporary employees and interns)