AI Verification Engineer (Intern)

Cspeed IO is a stealth start up backed by Sutter Hill Ventures and Atreides Capital - headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. Our executive team has a demonstrated track record of building and scaling category-defining semiconductor and infrastructure businesses at companies like Broadcom, Lumentum, Tesla, Apple, Samsung, Intel, and VMware. Cspeed IO is developing next-generation optical semiconductor solutions for the AI infrastructure market, focused on enabling true “scale-up” architectures. Our mission is to replace traditional copper interconnects with advanced fiber-optic technologies that overcome the limitations of existing optics solutions and architectures. **Role Summary** We are looking for an AI Verification Engineering Intern to develop and deploy Agentic AI solutions to automate key SoC Design Verification (DV) closure activities, with a strong focus on protocol correctness, assertion-based verification, coverage closure, regression analysis, and clock/reset validation. **Key Responsibilities** * Design AI agents that collaborate with DV engineers to analyze specifications, generate protocol checks and SVAs, identify coverage gaps, triage regression failures, and accelerate verification signoff. * Drive productivity improvements through intelligent automation while ensuring robust protocol compliance and functional correctness across complex SoC integrations. **Required Skills** * Must be pursuing a BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar discipline. * Prior experience creating AI agents