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Job Description: AI Design Validation Specialist (Verification / Workflow SME)
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced AI EDA Specialist (Verification / Workflow SME) to bridge the gap between semiconductor verification methodologies and AI-driven automation. This role will serve as the domain expert responsible for validating AI-generated verification artifacts, debugging customer verification challenges, developing ground-truth datasets, and ensuring AI solutions align with industry-standard verification workflows.
The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in SystemVerilog, UVM, simulation, and formal verification with a passion for enabling next-generation AI-powered engineering solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Verification Workflow Validation
- Validate AI-generated outputs across RTL verification workflows.
- Review and assessment generated:
- UVM testbenches
- Assertions (SVA)
- Coverage strategies
- Simulation and formal verification flows




- Ensure compliance with industry-standard verification methodologies and best practices.

Customer Technical Support & Debugging
- Investigate and resolve customer-reported issues involving:
- UVM environments
- RTL verification testbenches
- Functional coverage
- Assertion failures
- Simulation regressions
- Reproduce, analyze, and document root causes of complex verification problems.
- Partner closely with customers, application engineers, and product teams to drive issue resolution.

Ground Truth & Benchmark Development
- Develop and maintain benchmark verification datasets and golden reference test cases.
- Establish correctness criteria for evaluating AI-generated verification artifacts.
- Build validation suites for model qualification and regression testing.

AI Model Enablement
- Collaborate with AI/LLM engineers to improve accuracy and verification relevance of AI-generated outputs.
- Review model re

📌 Lead Verification Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cadence Systems
📍 Bengaluru