# CPU Design Verification Lead at NUVACORE

- Company: NUVACORE
- What the company does: NUVACORE builds for the stratosphere. Maximum performance. Absolute area efficiency. No compromise. A general-purpose CPU core designed to excel everywhere, from core infrastructure to advanced AI systems, including the continuous demands of agentic computing. Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.nuvacore.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Austin
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $140K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/nuvacore/0651bdd8-3c34-4cab-8547-68604af15b91
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nuvacore-cpu-design-verification-lead/

## About the role

As a CPU Design Verification (DV) Lead, you will lead the team that is driving efforts in all the following areas: Building test environments which target every aspect of the CPU unit, core, or system. Your goal is to find every weakness and flaw in the design using proven verification techniques.

## What they're looking for

- BS or MS with 15+ years experience in CPU verification
- Understanding in architecture and design practices and the trade-offs in verifying CPU designs
- Experience with one or more of RISC-V, ARM64,j or x86 ISA
- Strong communication skills and aptitude in debugging and breaking things in CPUs
- Experience in C, C++, System Verilog, scripting and other languages such as Perl or Python
- Experience managing and mentoring DV engineers

Tags: DESIGN VERIFICATION