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# (Senior) Design Verification Engineer at Alif Semiconductor

- **Company:** Alif Semiconductor
- **Location:** Oulu, Finland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/alifsemi/cd79811b-8d7b-426f-8243-705e354ee4c7

## Job description

The future of intelligent microcontrollers is here!

Alif established its first European R&D site to Oulu with the vision to build a center of expertise to complement the staff in the US and India. Our office is in the Technology park and we currently employ more than 30 employees.

Our local team consists of very experienced experts as well as young talents ready to grow in their careers. We have an open, supportive, and relaxed culture and we enjoy coming to the office and collaborating with one another.

We are looking for a motivated and experienced (Senior) Design Verification Engineer to join our Digital IC Design team responsible for Peripheral verification.

What can you expect to focus on as you onboard?

During your first six months, you will focus on building context, forming new relationships, and beginning to build your impact. Your focus will be on becoming familiar with the assigned block or IP and taking ownership of test development. The role includes debugging verification failures as well as understanding and debugging gate-level simulations (GLS). You will work as part of a highly skilled verification team, with opportunities to learn from experienced colleagues around you. The role offers a variety of tasks that can evolve based on your skills and professional development.

It would be great if you could tick some of the boxes below:

- University degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Embedded Systems or other similar degree
- Skilled in UVM and System Verilog
- Programming skills, Proficiency in C
- Testbench architecture design
- Knowledge of RTL design fundamentals
- Clock domain Crossing (CDC)
- Knowledge of most generic serial protocols
- Constrained random verification
- Knowledge of microcontrollers with embedded arm processor cores
- Knowledge or skills in GLS is plus
- Team working and collaboration skills
- Enthusiasm to learn and a can-do attitude

What can you expect from us?

You’ll be joining a close and collaborative team where people care about both; the work and each other. We provide a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and complex technical challenges. Our technology is built by our teams that openly share knowledge, support one another, and tackle challenges together.

The position is located in Oulu, Finland.

Alif Semiconductor provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

## About Alif Semiconductor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Alif Semiconductor is revolutionizing the way developers create products using secure, AI/ML-enabled 32-bit microcontrollers that combine scalability, high compute performance, and exceptional power efficiency.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-Backed)
- **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, USA (with additional offices in Irvine, CA; Bangalore, India; Oulu, Finland; and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Syed Ali (CEO & Co-Founder), Reza Kazerounian (President & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Embedded Systems, Edge AI/ML
- **Target customers**: B2B; developers and OEMs in consumer, industrial, and enterprise IoT applications
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To provide highly integrated processors that enable applications requiring scalable processing (Single to Multi-Core, RTOS and Linux), long battery life, strong security, high integration, and Edge AI/ML [alifsemi.com](https://alifsemi.com/careers/)

## Products & Services
- **Ensemble and Balletto MCU Families**: A new class of "fusion processors" that unify compute, connectivity, and intelligent processing in a single architecture. These 32-bit microcontrollers feature:
  - **aiPM Technology**: A proprietary power architecture that autonomously powers on only what is needed, enabling "unrivaled battery life."
  - **HW Accelerated AI**: One or more dedicated Ethos-U55/U85 Neural Processing Units, delivering at least 40x faster AI performance than conventional MCUs (up to 250 GigaOPS).
  - **Scalable Performance**: Seamless scaling from single-core to multi-core, with up to 3670 DMIPS combined compute performance and up to 19 MB+ integrated memory.
  - **Multilayered Security**: A strong Root of Trust, isolated secure subsystem, identity protection, cryptographic services, and fine-grained run-time security.
- **Type**: Hardware (Semiconductors/Microcontrollers) with integrated software ecosystem.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding**: USD $235.4M across three rounds [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/alif-semiconductor)
  - Series B (2022-03-16): $113.4M
  - Venture Round (2019-02-28): $72.0M
  - Series B (2019-12-01): $50.0M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Includes Mamoon Hamid (Board Director); backed by top-tier venture capital. Key talent sourced from Renesas, Nordic Semiconductor, Marvell, and Qualcomm.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - **Headcount**: 113 employees (+8.1% YoY) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/alif-semiconductor)
  - **Active Hiring**: 10 open positions; job postings up 25% monthly and quarterly
  - **LinkedIn Followers**: 16,991 (+26.6% yearly growth)
  - **Global Presence**: Offices in 4 countries (USA, India, Finland, Singapore) with employees in 5 countries

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-Mover in AI-Enabled MCUs**: Alif created a new category of fusion processors that natively integrate AI/ML acceleration, security, and power management on a single die—a clear differentiator from legacy MCU vendors.
- **Unrivaled Power Efficiency**: The aiPM architecture allows for battery life previously unheard of in connected devices, a critical moat for IoT and edge applications.
- **Scalable Single-Chip Design**: Developers can reuse the same software across a wide spectrum of products, from simple sensors to complex edge devices, reducing time-to-market.
- **Strong Security Foundation**: A multi-layered, hardware-backed security approach is fundamental to the design, addressing a key pain point for connected devices.
- **Top-Tier Team**: The executive team and engineering staff are veterans of the semiconductor industry, with deep domain expertise in MCUs [alifsemi.com](https://alifsemi.com/about/).

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth & Scale**: Aggressively hiring to expand engineering, sales, and field application teams globally.
- **Product Expansion**: Continuing to develop and launch new families of AI-enabled MCUs to capture the growing edge AI and IoT markets.
- **Market Penetration**: Targeting consumer, industrial, and enterprise applications where low power, high performance, and security are paramount.
- **Ecosystem Development**: Building a robust software and partner ecosystem to support developers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: A diverse, global workforce representing over 40 nationalities. The company puts "learning and growth first," offering hands-on complex projects and daily challenges. They seek "doers who want to make a big impact" [alifsemi.com](https://alifsemi.com/careers/).
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid/office presence across multiple global hubs (Pleasanton, CA; Irvine, CA; Bangalore, India; Oulu, Finland; Singapore).
- **Benefits**:
  - Competitive salary and equity
  - 401K (US) or equivalent retirement plans (Global)
  - Paid Time Off and Holidays
  - Health Insurance and Sick Leave
  - Maternity & Paternity Leave
- **Engineering Culture**: A heavy emphasis on technical excellence—47% of the workforce is in technical roles. Engineers work on cutting-edge silicon, RTOS, and AI/ML at the edge.
- **Employer Rating**: 3.8/5.0 on LinkedIn (based on 26 reviews), with a high career development score of 3.9/5.0 [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/alif-semiconductor).

## Sources
1. [Alif Semiconductor Official Website](https://alifsemi.com/)
2. [Alif Semiconductor Careers Page](https://alifsemi.com/careers/)
3. [Alif Semiconductor About Page](https://alifsemi.com/about/)
4. [Alif Semiconductor Job Listings (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/alifsemi)
5. [Alif Semiconductor LinkedIn Page](https://linkedin.com/company/alif-semiconductor)

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