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Senior Design Verification Engineer

Intel

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Santa Clara, CA · Posted November 11, 2026

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About the Team

Intel is building something new. The Unified Intel Chassis (UIC) team is a new IP development team focused on chassis and interconnect technology and a configurable generator for SoCs and chiplets. As a Senior Design Verification Engineer, you will verify coherent, non-coherent, and I/O-coherent systems — including interactions among interconnects, caches, memory subsystems, and chassis functions such as clocking, power management, reset, debug, and trace.

This is a hands-on technical role spanning the full verification lifecycle: from clarifying requirements and building models and checkers through debugging and verification signoff. You will work closely with engineers across architecture, design, verification, and tooling to turn specifications into working, tested hardware. Simulation, formal verification, and AI-assisted development are part of how we work.

Key Responsibilities

Own verification plans for chassis and interconnect IP, prioritize functional and integration risks, and drive assigned features from initial bring-up through signoff

Build reusable environments, reference models, and checkers for data integrity, ordering, address translation, access permissions, interrupt routing and delivery, and forward progress under concurrent traffic and backpressure

Combine simulation, formal properties, and targeted experiments to find bugs; review assumptions, checker completeness, coverage gaps, and proof results rather than relying on passing regressions alone

Collaborate with design and verification engineers to define interface contracts, share VIP and assertions, and debug interactions across data paths, clock and power transitions, reset sequences, and debug and trace functions

Work with architecture, design, and tooling engineers to clarify specifications, evaluate tradeoffs, and contribute reviewed changes to models, RTL, and verification infrastructure

Develop configuration-driven regressions and AI-assisted workflows for coding, property development, and debug; validate generated work with independent checks and reproducible tests across supported configurations

Mentor engineers through code and testplan reviews, communicate remaining risks, and establish clear evidence for verification closure

What We're Looking For

You should demonstrate the following professional traits to be successful:

Demonstrated ownership of complex verification work through closure, including cross-block root-cause analysis and clear technical communication across engineering disciplines

A collaborative approach to working across architecture, design, and verification teams to define requirements, resolve ambiguity, and drive toward shared goals

A rigorous, evidence-driven mindset — one that questions assumptions, validates generated work independently, and communicates risk clearly rather than relying on surface-level indicators of completeness

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 10+ years of relevant experience in design verification; background in IP DV with significant experience in subsystem and SoC-level verification

The experience must include:

Hands-on experience verifying high-performance interconnects and memory subsystems, with an understanding of coherent, non-coherent, and I/O-coherent operation, cache coherency, memory consistency, transaction ordering, virtual memory, I/O Memory management units (IOMMUs), and interrupt controllers; experience with MESI/MOESI-based coherency mechanisms and protocols such as AMBA CHI, CXL, or comparable architectures

SystemVerilog/UVM and assertion-based verification skills, with practical experience applying formal verification alongside simulation and understanding the limits of each method

Programming and debugging skills in SystemVerilog and Python or C/C++; ability to read RTL, build independent reference models and checkers, and develop maintainable test automation

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with configurable interconnect generators, generated testbenches, and verification across topology, parameter, and multi-die configurations

Experience with formal abstraction and proof decomposition, or emulation-based validation of system workloads

Experience verifying clocking, power management, reset, debug, trace, RAS, security isolation, or QoS interactions at subsystem level

Knowledge of cache hierarchies, home nodes, duplicate-tag structures, snoop filters, memory controllers, and how their interactions affect correctness and performance

Experience building and evaluating AI-assisted engineering workflows, including checks for incorrect generated code, properties, or specification interpretations

Job Type: Experienced Hire

Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location: US, California, Santa Clara

Additional Locations: US, Arizona, Phoenix, US, California, Folsom, US, Oregon, Hillsboro, US, Texas, Austin

Posting Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

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Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $190,610.00-269,100.00 USD

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