Also called: Design Verification Engineer, DV Engineer
Tries to find every bug in a chip design before it's manufactured, because fixing it afterward costs millions.
You build test environments that throw billions of random inputs at a simulated chip to catch the one-in-a-billion flaw. Verification engineers often outnumber designers on chip teams.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 5 years after high school. Bachelor's or master's in electrical/computer engineering.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering.
Growing much faster than average. High demand.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI generates testbenches and finds bugs faster, cutting junior verification work; tricky corner cases stay human.
Classes: AP Computer Science A, AP Calculus, AP Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2061.
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