Senior Principal Engineer - Design Verification

Why join Upscale, Inc.

Upscale, Inc., is building the high-performance infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Backed by over $500M in funding and rapid global adoption, we are scaling systems designed for the world’s most demanding AI workloads.

We focus on first-principles engineering across silicon, systems, and networking—where performance, scale, and execution are critical. Our team is talent-dense and high-performing. We value ownership, technical rigor, and speed, and we offer the opportunity to work on foundational problems with immediate, real-world impact.

If you’re looking to do high-impact work, move fast, and help define the infrastructure behind the future of AI—Upscale is where you can produce meaningful work at the frontier—and operate at a high standard.

Experience Level: 17+ Years (or 15+ with exceptional strategic track record)

Location: Bangalore, India (On-Site)

Position Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We are seeking a visionary Senior Principal DV Engineer to define the global verification strategy for our massive-scale networking SoCs. This is a high-impact, elite technical leadership role. You will be responsible for defining the overarching SoC verification methodology, driving cross-functional alignment from architecture to post-silicon, and pioneering next-generation verification technologies (such as Formal and Emulation). You will influence design architectures for verifiability and serve as a strategic technical advisor to executive leadership while steering the broader engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities

• SoC Verification Strategy: Define, architect, and govern the overarching verification roadmap and methodology for full-scale, multi-million gate networking SoCs.
• Methodology Innovation: Drive the adoption of advanced methodologies. Seamlessly integrate Formal Property Verification (FPV), hardware emulation, and advanced shift-left strategies into the standard SoC timeline.
• High-Level Governance: Establish, track, and enforce rigorous quality metrics and sign-off criteria across the entire project lifecycle, ensuring zero-defect silicon.
• Architectural Influence: Work directly with Silicon Architects and Design Directors to review specs, optimize micro-architecture for testability/verifiability (DFV), and mitigate risk early.
• Organizational Mentorship: Mentor Principal engineers and technical leads across the site. Champion best practices, drive technical brainstorming, and cultivate a culture of engineering excellence.
• Crisis Debugging & Escalation: Act as the ultimate technical authority for critical, complex issues that block project milestones or require deep cross-functional triage.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Experience: 15+ to 17+ years of distinguished experience in ASIC/SoC Verification, having successfully guided multiple complex, large-scale tape-outs from concept to production.
• Domain Leadership: Deep, comprehensive knowledge of the networking domain, with an understanding of how system-level traffic flow impacts full-chip verification constraints.
• Full-Scale SoC Scope: Proven experience leading full SoC-level verification environments, managing top-level testbenches, and coordinating multi-subsystem integration.
• Expertise: Authoritative knowledge of System Verilog, UVM, and structural verification planning.
• Influence & Communication: Outstanding executive communication skills. Ability to articulate complex technical risks and trade-offs clearly to both engineering teams and executive management.
• Education: B Tech/M Tech in Electronics/Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred / Added Advantages

• Strong, proven track record of deploying Formal Verification (FPV) at scale to displace traditional simulation.
• Experience integrating hardware emulation (e.g., Palladium, Zebu) into a unified simulation workflow.

Where you fall within that range depends on your experience, skills, and impact—we benchmark against internal levels to keep things fair and consistent.

Equal Opportunity

Upscale, Inc., is building a team that reflects a wide range of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

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