Verification engineers prove a chip design behaves correctly before anyone spends money fabricating it, and because silicon bugs cannot be patched, this is where semiconductor teams concentrate headcount. It is the largest single hiring pocket in Indian chip design and the most accessible entry point for computer science graduates, since the work is essentially writing sophisticated test software in SystemVerilog and UVM. Demand sits in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Noida and Pune's automotive semiconductor teams.