Senior ASIC Design Verification Engineer

K2 Space Corporation builds high-power satellite platforms for missions across multiple orbits and deep space. The company is seeking a Senior ASIC Design Verification Engineer to verify custom silicon functionality, performance, and robustness, while developing verification methodologies and collaborating across architecture, RTL, DFT, firmware, physical design, and silicon validation teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute verification plans for block-level, subsystem-level, and full-chip environments. Build SystemVerilog/UVM test benches, including agents, monitors, scoreboards, checkers, and coverage models
• Write SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) and integrate formal verification where appropriate
• Drive constrained-random and directed testing strategies to validate functionality, corner cases, and stress scenarios
• Run simulations, triage failures, drive root-cause analysis, and collaborate with RTL designers to resolve issues
• Implement and maintain functional coverage, code coverage, assertion coverage, and ensure coverage closure for sign-off
• Manage regression testing, simulation farms, and CI pipelines to ensure high test throughput and fast debug iterations
• Participate in design reviews, microarchitecture discussions, and influence design-for-verification (DFV) best practices
• Work closely with architecture, RTL design, DFT, firmware, physical design, and silicon validation engineers to ensure end-to-end coverage and test
• Support silicon bring-up and post-silicon validation through test reuse, diagnostics, and debug analysis
• Participate in ASIC team interviews
• Contribute to advancement of DV methodologies and improvements
• Engage external IP providers and verification partners when needed

Preferred

• Experience with developing and integrating reference models
• Understanding of low power verification
• Familiarity with gate-level simulation and analog behavioral models
• Involvement in post-silicon validation planning and execution
• Experience working in cross-functional, geographically distributed teams
• Experience in space, telecom, or RF/digital mixed systems is a plus
• Reference Model Development
• Low Power Verification
• Gate-Level Simulation
• Analog Behavioral Models
• Post-Silicon Validation
• Space Systems Experience
• Telecom Systems Experience
• RF/Digital Mixed Systems Experience
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

Benefits

• Equity in the company
• Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/ coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks

Company

• High-power satellite platforms for Earth-orbit and cislunar missions
• Los Angeles, California, USA
• https://www.k2space.com/
• Founded in 2022
• 51-200 employees

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC verification
• Solid understanding of SystemVerilog, digital logic, RTL design, and hardware verification flows
• Proficiency with a simulation (VCS, Xcelium, Questa), waveform debug (Verdi, SimVision), coverage tool, and scripting languages (ex: Python, Perl, TCL)
• Experience with testplanning, UVM-based testbench development, constrained-random testing, functional coverage, and SystemVerilog assertions
• Experience with regression management, coverage analysis, revision control (Git), and CI/CD automation
• Understanding of several industry-standard interfaces (ex: APB/AHB/AXI)
• Familiarity with embedded processor-based designs and firmware/bare metal coding (ex: C, C++)
• The person hired for this role must therefore either be a “U.S. person” as defined by [22 C.F.R. § 120.15](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/22/120.15) or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license
• Experience with developing and integrating reference models
• Understanding of low power verification
• Familiarity with gate-level simulation and analog behavioral models
• Involvement in post-silicon validation planning and execution
• Experience working in cross-functional, geographically distributed teams
• Experience in space, telecom, or RF/digital mixed systems is a plus
• 5+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC verification.

Required skills

• ASIC/SoC Verification, SystemVerilog, RTL Design, UVM, SystemVerilog Assertions, Constrained-Random Testing, Functional Coverage, VCS, Xcelium, or Questa, Verdi or SimVision, Python, Perl, or Tcl, Git, CI/CD Automation

Preferred skills

• Experience with developing and integrating reference models, Understanding of low power verification

Experience

• 5+ years