Senior Principal Engineer - Verification

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 12+ years Location: Bengaluru JobType: full-time

Act as the senior technical authority for verification across the organization. Define verification architecture and methodology for the most complex SoCs, solve the hardest technical escalations, and support pre-sales with technical solutioning. Influence comes through leads and principals rather than direct reports.

Experience: 12 to 14 years. Must have 5 or more tapeouts, including multiple complex SoCs, and a record of defining verification methodology at organization level.

Requirements

Desired Skills:

• 1. Defines the verification architecture for complex SoCs, such as multi-cluster CPUs, coherent interconnects, PCIe, CXL and DDR/HBM subsystems, and chiplet or UCIe-based designs.
• 2. Owns organization-level verification methodology: UVM framework standards, coding guidelines, VIP strategy, regression and coverage infrastructure.
• 3. Expert in advanced techniques: formal verification, emulation and hybrid emulation, Portable Stimulus (PSS), and hardware/software co-verification.
• 4. Evaluates and selects EDA tools, VIPs and flows, and builds strong relationships with EDA vendors.
• 5. Is the escalation point for the hardest bugs, sign-off disputes and verification-closure risks across projects.
• 6. Provides technical solutioning for pre-sales: verification approach, effort models and risk assessment for customer proposals.
• 7. Drives AI/ML-assisted verification initiatives, such as coverage closure, regression triage and test generation.
• 8. Mentors principals and technical leads, and builds technical depth across the verification practice.
• 9. Represents the company in technical discussions with customer architects.

• Must-have skills

• verification architecture, SoC verification, UVM framework

• Good-to-have skills

• EDA tool evaluation, AI/ML verification initiatives, chiplet or UCIe experience.