The Tesla AI Hardware team is at the forefront of revolutionizing artificial intelligence through cutting-edge hardware innovation. Comprising brilliant engineers and visionaries, the team designs and develops advanced AI inference chips tailored to accelerate Tesla's machine learning capabilities. A key part of this effort is Dojo, Tesla's custom supercomputer system built to efficiently train massive neural networks on vast video data from the fleet. The work of Tesla's AI Hardware team powers the neural networks behind Full Self-Driving (FSD), and Tesla humanoid robot, Optimus, pushing the boundaries of computational efficiency and performance. By creating custom silicon and optimized architectures, the team ensures Tesla remains a leader in AI-driven automotive and energy solutions, shaping a future where intelligent machines enhance human life. The AI Hardware team is looking for a SOC Verification Engineer who will be responsible for RTL verification of top-level SOC. With a strong knowledge of SOC architecture and SOC verification methodologies, you will interact with multiple teams and build a metric-driven, configurable, and flexible verification environment. We are open to hiring in Austin, TX and Palo Alto, CA and at all levels Entry-level, Senior, Staff, Senior-Staff.
Work with team members to define and set up a SOC-level verification environment
Architect highly reusable UVM based test benches and integrate VIPs, sub-system test benches, and develop test suites at the SOC level
Achieve targeted coverage and work with Design, Architecture, SW, FW, Validation and external IP delivery teams to efficiently integrate and verify the design
Execute, review, and refine testplans to achieve coverage targets
Verify logic at block, IP, subsystem & fullchip level
Understand details of High Efficiency SOC Architecture, standard SOC peripherals, bus protocols, Network on chip (NOC) and I/O, memory management schemes, multi-processor systems, Memory Controller Sub Systems
Low power design verification
7+ years of dedicated/hands-on DV experience
Experience with Gate level simulation, Timing simulation and verification
Experience in SOC DV bring-up, clocks, power, reset, boot
Experience verifying high speed memory IPs & IO
Experience with amba bus protocols
Experience verifying CPU/GPU/IPs integration at the SOC level
Strong programming skills in UVM, System Verilog, C/C++, Python/Perl
Post-silicon validation/SOC bringup experience, UPF Low power DV, Emulation experience
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire: