# Sr Engineer CAD Pre-Silicon Front End at Velaura AI

- Company: Velaura AI
- What the company does: Backed by MVP Ventures.
- Company website: https://velaura.ai
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Santa Clara, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/velaura/06216133-0303-4cb4-9721-76d0d8c1a24f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/velaura-ai-sr-engineer-cad-pre-silicon-front-end/

## About the role

Velaura is building custom silicon for Physical and Embodied AI, and we are building it from a blank sheet. The automation our design and verification engineers use to get

## What they're looking for

- 8 or more years in design verification, design or CAD engineering, including ownership of a flow area
- Strong SystemVerilog and RTL fluency with the ability to read and debug design and testbench code
- Hands on experience building and running simulation and regression flows including testbench compile, coverage collection and results triage
- Excellent Python skills and a track record of building tools that other engineers maintain
- Working knowledge of front end design and verification EDA tools from Synopsys, Cadence or Siemens EDA
- Working knowledge of Linux administration, distributed compute such as LSF or Slurm, and the storage and scaling constraints behind large regression workloads

Tags: CAD