Sr. Engineer, ASIC Design Verification

Bengaluru, Karnataka

About the role

Position: Sr. Engineer, ASIC Design Verification Location: Bengaluru, India Job Id: 599 # of Openings: 0 Sr. Engineer - ASIC Design Verification Location: Bangalor (on-site, flexible hours) Ayar Labs is shattering AI data bottlenecks by moving data at the speed of light. As pioneers of co-packaged optics (CPO), we are using light instead of electricity to move data faster, further, and with a fraction of the energy needed to fuel the explosive growth of AI models. Backed by industry giants like NVIDIA, AMD, MediaTek and Intel and manufactured in partnership with the world’s leading semiconductor ecosystem, Ayar Labs’ co-packaged optics solution is key to unleashing next-generation AI scale-up architectures. Summary: This role is responsible for pre-Si verification and validation of complex SoCs with both high-speed custom and digital blocks. You will work in a dynamic startup environment as part of a small IC design team. The ideal candidate is a hands-on self-starter who can craft design specifications, verification suites and test-benches based on input from colleagues, customers, and industry and who can effectively manage his or her own time to take projects to completion with limited supervision and guidance. Essential Functions: Develop verification methodology and testbenches for digital and mixed-signal blocks Test plan, coverage analysis and closure for parallel link and SerDes IP blocks and on-chip interconnects Design and contribute to design for test (DFT) methodologies Basic

Qualifications: BS, MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent 2+ years of ASIC verification experience 2+ years of System Verilog, UVM testbench development for design verification of complex digital and PHY blocks (in AMS and WREAL modeling verification) 2+ years of scripting and/or programming skills Preferred

Qualifications: Experience working on digital designs with multiple clock domains and clock dividers Post- place-and-route functional verification (NCSIM, VCS, ModelSim) Experience in verification of SerDes IP block interfaces in a complex SoC fabric environment Experience in verification of the PCS, PMA SerDes layers and internal SerDes digital backends Experience with verification of HBM memory interfaces (PHY and controller) Experience in formal model equivalence checking tools and verification methodology Programming experience in Python Recruiters: Principals only. We are not accepting resumes from recruiters for this position. Remuneration for recruiting activities is only applicable subject to a signed and executed agreement between the parties. Please don’t send candidates to Ayar Labs, and please don't contact our managers or employees. Apply for this Position Go back to the job list

About Ayar Labs

Ayar Labs uses silicon photonics and microring-based architectures to increase bandwidth, reduce latency, and improve power efficiency in accelerator and XPU environments. The company’s TeraPHY optical engine integrates UCIe-based optical chiplets to enable high-throughput, low-power data transfer across extended distances within and between compute systems. Its SuperNova external light source provides multi-wavelength laser output designed for scalable, standards-based deployment. Ayar Labs supports disaggregated memory and scale-up architectures, enabling AI hardware systems to operate with higher interconnect density and accelerator utilization.

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Job details

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Company

NameAyar Labs
IndustryAI Infrastructure
Team Size3

Funding

Total raised

$870M

Last stage

Series E

Investors

NNeuberger Berman
AAdvent International
LLight Street Capital
PPlayground Global
Insight Partners

Founders

Mark Wade

Mark Wade

Co-Founder & CEO

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Chen Sun

Chen Sun

Co-Founder & VP of Silicon Engineering / Chief Scientist

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Vladimir Stojanovic

Vladimir Stojanovic

Co-Founder & CTO

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