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title: 'Design Verification Engineer at Voltai'
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# Design Verification Engineer at Voltai

- **Company:** Voltai
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-11-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/voltai.careers/72d0ffba-2320-40f3-a45c-db97a13cd41a

## Job description

## About Voltai

Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.

## About the Team

Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.

## About this Role

We are building next- generation tools for silicon design by combining deep verification expertise with modern AI systems. As a Senior Verification Engineer, your role isn’t just verifying chips but redefining how teams verify chips. If you want to build tools that scale with the new era of complexity in hardware, this role offers high ownership and direct impact on real-world chip development.

## What You’ll Do

- Own verification strategy across multiple IP blocks and subsystems, from testbench
- architecture to signoff.
- Design and develop AI assisted workflows that accelerate verification, coverage closure, and debug.
- Build reusable verification frameworks using SystemVerilog, UVM, Python and custom automation tooling.
- Collaborate with ML and software teams to integrate AI models into existing DV environments.
- Contribute to product direction by exploring how automation can reshape verification methodologies.
- Work with customers in a forward deployed capacity when needed, translating real design challenges into product features.
- Drive tapeout readiness with full accountability for quality metrics, regression health, and coverage targets.
- Mentor junior engineers and help define best practices for next generation verification teams.

What Makes This Role Unique

- Opportunity to influence the future of tooling and AI guided verification flows.
- High ownership from day one including technical decisions, roadmap input, and customer interactions.
- Exposure to both engineering and product thinking.
- Fast- moving environment built for builders who take initiative rather than wait for direction.

## Qualifications

- 4 to 6 years of hands-on verification experience.
- Strong SystemVerilog and UVM skills with proven debug depth.
- Familiarity with Python or similar scripting languages.
- Curious mindset toward AI or automation in verification, even if not an expert yet.
- Ability to work across domains and communicate clearly with software or ML teams.
- Comfortable interacting with clients, architects, and leadership when needed.
- Thrives in a high responsibility environment and enjoys creating solutions that did not exist before.

Bonus Skills

- Experience with formal verification, co-simulation or stimulus generation frameworks.
- Background in ML, LLMs, data pipelines, or tool development.
- Previous involvement in customer facing or forward deployed engineering roles.
- Demonstrated ability to build tools that others actually use.

## About Voltai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Voltai develops AI models and agentic systems that learn, plan, and experiment to design PCBs, ASICs, and other semiconductor/electronics hardware, aiming to surpass human cognitive limits in physical-world engineering.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage – pre-seed funding round reported in October 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, United States (also has presence in Germany)
- **Founded**: 2015 (as per Tracxn; recent operational activity suggests a more current iteration)
- **Founders**: Not publicly named as co-founders; current CEO is Priyanka Mathikshara (per Tracxn), CSO is Labib Tazwar Rahman (per LinkedIn). The team includes former Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, and alumni from Synopsys, GlobalFoundries, and Cadence.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI for semiconductor and electronics design (hardware design automation)
- **Target customers**: B2B – the world’s largest semiconductor companies, consumer electronics makers, automotive OEMs, and sovereign nations
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build superintelligent systems that can reason across the entire hardware-software-manufacturing stack, enabling the next frontier of physical-world engineering.

## Products & Services
- **[Voltai AI Platform]**: A suite of AI models and agents that co-design electronics and semiconductors. The system uses world models to run billions of virtual experiments, bypassing the prohibitive cost and time of physical prototyping. Outputs include PCB layouts, ASIC designs, and manufacturing blueprints. (Type: AI/ML SaaS with physical verification)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Raised CAD$1.83M in pre-seed funding in October 2025 from Invest Nova Scotia, Cloudberry Pioneer Investments, and others (conflicting with Tracxn’s “unfunded” status – see Sources).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by “Silicon Valley’s top investors”, Stanford University, and executives/CEOs of Google, AMD, and Broadcom (per website). Strategic partners include major semiconductor and consumer electronics firms.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew ~600% YoY (from very small base); currently 3–4 employees with 27 active job postings (as of mid-2026). Website claims partnerships with “most of the world’s largest semiconductor companies” and sovereign nations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain-specific foundation models**: Unlike general-purpose AI, Voltai’s models are trained on proprietary real-world hardware data and can reason over long horizons (months-to-years design cycles).
- **World model simulation**: Runs billions of experiments in silico, a unique capability that reduces the need for costly physical tape-outs.
- **Elite talent pool**: Team includes former CTOs of Synopsys and GlobalFoundries, a former US Secretary of Defense, and Olympic medalists (IPhO, IOI) – an unusually deep combination of AI research and semiconductor executive experience.
- **Board-level strategic priority**: Already has commitments from top-tier semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, including sovereign nations, giving it rare access and validation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the AI platform to cover the full electronics stack (from PCB to ASIC to manufacturing); hiring aggressively across research (post-training, CUDA kernel engineering), hardware engineering (system, power, server), and enterprise sales; expanding partnerships with global semiconductor leaders.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes high-agency, interdisciplinary work at the intersection of AI and physical engineering. The team includes Olympiad medalists and former CTOs – a “smartest in the room” environment.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Fully remote (as indicated on Built In and LinkedIn). Employees work from the United States and Germany.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on frontier AI problems with direct impact on the semiconductor industry; access to unrivaled industry partners and compute resources.
- **Engineering culture**: Heavy focus on research engineering (CUDA, post-training, systems), with open roles for both software and hardware engineers. Emphasis on real-world validation and iterative experimentation.

## Sources
1. [voltai.com](https://www.voltai.com/)
2. [LinkedIn – Voltai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/voltai-inc)
3. [Built In – Voltai Careers](https://builtin.com/company/voltai)
4. [Tracxn – Voltai Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/voltai/__HV-xuXnVpXmBMrSANdeEmHzMlZPWefz9YZpOVAklfDE)
5. [FinSMEs – Voltai Raises CAD$1.83M in Pre-Seed Funding](https://www.finsmes.com) (referenced in search snippet)
6. [Ashby – Voltai Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/voltai.careers)

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