DV - Principal Digital Verification Engineer
Eliyan
Vancouver, BC OR Bay Area, CA · Posted April 27, 2026
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Join the leading chiplet startup! As an Eliyan Principal Digital Verification Engineer, you will be working at a fast-paced early-stage startup creating technologies that fuel tomorrow’s chiplet based systems with best-in-class power, area, manufacturability, and design flexibility. You will be a key technical leader in developing state-of-the-art testbenches and unit/chip level test cases for best-in-class PHYs and Controllers. You will lead verification methodologies for Eliyan products. You will work with a cross-functional team of experts that operate from first principles, innovate and push the envelope to create high-volume and high-performance manufacturable products. We offer a fun work environment with excellent benefits.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide technical verification leadership to Eliyan products and provide guidance to junior engineers.
Develop and execute verification plans for connectivity IPs and Chiplets .
Create and maintain SystemVerilog/UVM-based verification environments .
Write and debug SystemVerilog/UVM compliant test cases for block and chip level.
Maintain a regression environment for enabling design CI/CD pipelines.
Collaborate with design engineers to ensure design quality with continuous micro-architecture, test-plan, and coverage reviews.
Develop, maintain, and track various test plan items and progress towards RTL freeze.
Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies and progress in standards’ bodies.
Ensure IP compliance with industry standard protocols.
Integration of 3 rd party VIPs and coordinate feature/bug tracking requests.
Perform in the capacity of a technical leader for junior verification engineers.
Create, improve, maintain DPI based FW simulation environments.
Create, improve, maintain gate level simulation environments for functional and power simulations.
Drive state of art verification methodologies for silicon verification including constrained based random verification, coverage driven verification.
Create microcontroller sub system testbenches and verification plan.
Own end-to-end verification for the company products.
Automation of verification flows including automated regression flow
Qualifications:
BS in Electrical Engineering and related fields with 15+ years of experience
Strong expertise in UVM, test environment and assertion coding with SystemVerilog
Strong expertise on coverage driven verification
Proficiency in 3 rd party tools for regression management and coverage analysis
Experience working on connectivity interfaces and protocols.
Knowledge of IO interface is a plus
Strong bias for innovations across all aspects of digital verification including automation of mundane activities and methods for quality improvement
Experience in verifying 3 rd party mixed signal IPs as well as integration of VIPs
Proven track record of being part of a start-up like environment
Strong debugging skills
Strong understanding of microcontroller architecture and related peripheral talking to microcontrollers
Hands on experience with one of the scripting languages