Principal ASIC Design Verification Engineer

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Principal ASIC Design Verification Engineer to provide technical leadership and strategic direction across IP, Subsystem, and SoC verification. This role is ideal for a verification architect and technical authority who drives methodology innovation, mentors teams, and champions AI-assisted verification to scale quality and productivity across complex ASIC platforms. You will focus on the following:

• Act as a verification technical leader and architect across IP, Subsystem, and SoC programs
• Define and own end-to-end verification strategies, methodologies, and best practices across teams
• Architect highly reusable, scalable, and modular UVM-based verification environments
• Drive cross-project alignment on verification flows, coverage strategies, and sign-off criteria
• Lead complex debug efforts, root-cause analysis, and final functional sign-off for critical programs
• Champion AI-driven, data-driven, and automation-enabled verification solutions to eliminate bottlenecks
• Establish advanced regression, coverage analytics, and intelligent failure triage workflows
• Mentor senior and junior verification engineers; raise the overall technical bar of the organization
• Partner closely with architecture, design, validation, and product teams to influence design-for-verification decisions
• Act as a key technical interface with internal leadership and external stakeholders

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering or a related field
• 12–16 years of deep, hands‑on ASIC Design Verification experience
• Demonstrated leadership in IP, Subsystem, and SoC-level verification, preferably in networking or packet-processing domains
• Proven experience architecting complex verification environments used across multiple programs
• Expert‑level skills in:
• System Verilog, UVM, Verilog
• C/C++
• Strong mastery of verification methodologies, including constrained-random, coverage-driven verification, and gate-level simulations
• Extensive experience in Linux/Unix environments; strong scripting skills (Python preferred)
• Hands‑on expertise with high-speed protocols such as Ethernet, PCIe, USB 3.0, and SERDES
• Experience with SystemC and DSP concepts is highly desirable
• Proven success applying AI-assisted verification techniques for debug acceleration, coverage optimization, and productivity gains
• Strong technical influence, communication, and mentorship skills with a strategic mindset

Max Linear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system‑on‑chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi‑market applications.

We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.

Max Linear began by developing the world’s first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn’t achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs. Since then, we’ve developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long‑haul optical interconnects;

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Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments. Over the years, we’ve expanded through organic growth and through several acquisitions that have perfectly complemented our existing portfolio and enabled us to deliver complete end‑to‑end solutions in our target markets. One such example was the acquisition of Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division that added Wi‑Fi, Ethernet, and Broadband Gateway Processor SoC technology to our connected home portfolio creating a complete and scalable platform of connectivity and access solutions to fully address our customers’ needs.

Our headquarters are in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, California;
Valencia, Spain;
Bangalore, India;
Munich, Germany;
Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,200 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world. Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside‑the‑box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration. Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market.