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Pre/Post Silicon Validation Engineer

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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA)$146k - $209kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role focused on validating custom infrastructure silicon across the full lifecycle from pre-silicon design input and FPGA emulation to post-silicon bring-up, characterization, and deployment in production fleets. Lead end-to-end validation, develop emulation and validation infrastructure, and collaborate across RTL, firmware, software, and systems teams to ensure reliable, performant silicon at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Work across all aspects of the silicon lifecycle to deliver reliable, performant silicon - from early architecture and design input, through pre-silicon test readiness and validation, to post-silicon bring-up, characterization, and fleet deployment
  • Define and execute silicon validation strategies, including test plans, coverage models, regression frameworks, and productization readiness criteria
  • Develop and maintain emulation infrastructure for custom silicon, including FPGA-based emulation platform bring-up and configuration
  • Partition and map RTL designs onto emulation platforms, optimizing for timing closure, resource utilization, and debug visibility
  • Build and maintain software, scripting, and automation infrastructure for validation and emulation workflows, including silicon diagnostics, performance analysis, debug tooling, job scheduling, and results analysis across bare-metal and full-stack systems
  • Debug complex hardware, firmware, and software interactions across RTL, firmware, and software layers; root-cause, resolve, and remediate silicon issues across the product lifecycle
  • Partner with RTL design and verification engineers to identify and resolve functional bugs prior to tape-out
  • Ensure continuity between pre- and post-silicon environments so that emulation accurately models silicon behavior and validation content transitions cleanly into lab and data center bring-up
  • Understand production system use cases to improve silicon validation, and feed insights from the production fleet back into next-generation architecture and design
  • Evaluate and integrate new validation and emulation tools, methodologies, and platform capabilities to improve throughput and debug efficiency
  • Lead end-to-end validation efforts, driving strategy, planning, execution, and post-silicon enablement and provide technical guidance to peers on validation methodology, debug techniques, and infrastructure best practices

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 6+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC development cycles with pre-silicon and/or post-silicon validation, hardware verification, or FPGA-based emulation for custom silicon
  • Experience troubleshooting, debug, and analytics for silicon products, including debugging hardware-software interactions using waveform viewers, logic analyzers, and hardware debug probes
  • Experience with ASIC design or development, emulation, and post-silicon validation
  • Experience developing automation scripts and test infrastructure in Python, C/C++
  • Experience collaborating with internal and external partners across RTL design, verification, firmware, software, and systems teams in a custom silicon environment

Skills

Required:Silicon validation strategyEmulation infrastructureDebug and root-cause analysisAutomation and scriptingCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Benefits information as described in job listing
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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