# Design Verification Engineer- CPU at Velaura AI

- Company: Velaura AI
- What the company does: Backed by MVP Ventures.
- Company website: https://velaura.ai
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Santa Clara, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/velaura/4ad9cc7c-1ca2-47a1-b549-4119b83cfde4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/velaura-ai-design-verification-engineer-cpu/

## About the role

We are looking for talented Design Verification Engineers to help verify and deliver Velaura's next generation Physical AI SoC. You will work closely with architects, RTL engineers, software engineers and system teams to establish confidence in the correctness, performance, reliability and safety of the design, from individual RTL blocks through complete hardware and software systems running real workloads.

## What they're looking for

- 8 or more years verifying high performance CPUs or complex digital designs
- Strong computer architecture and microarchitecture fundamentals
- Experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, C and C++, assertions and coverage driven verification
- Experience owning a block or unit of a design independently from test plan through coverage closure
- Experience writing test plans, portable testbenches and transactors
- Experience debugging complex issues across hardware and software boundaries

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