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Technical Lead Engineer — Power Validation & Characterization

Meta· Data Center Design, Engineering, & Construction
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Sunnyvale, CA$212k - $294kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Meta's Infrastructure team delivers scalable and reliable custom ASIC solutions. The Technical Lead Engineer will own end-to-end validation and characterization of Meta custom silicon programs, guiding pre-silicon emulation through post-silicon bring-up and PVT characterization, and lead a team to ensure data quality and rigorous validation across domains.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end validation and characterization strategy for Meta custom silicon programs in your domain, from pre-silicon emulation through post-silicon bring-up and PVT characterization
  • Define the test plan: measurement and benchmarking methodology, instrumentation, functional and performance coverage, corner coverage across process/voltage/temperature, and pass/fail criteria
  • Establish and document best practices for measurement rigor, accuracy, and correlation across bench, emulation, and ATE/production data
  • Drive validation of domain feature sets (power or networking) on emulation platforms pre-silicon and on real silicon post-silicon
  • Review schematics, power delivery networks, high-speed interface designs, and board/platform configurations with hardware and design teams; provide early design and debuggability inputs
  • Write and review automation and analysis code that scales characterization from a single bench to many units in the lab
  • Lead debug of complex cross-stack issues — silicon, firmware, driver, board, thermal, and fabric/switch layers — and drive root cause to closure with design, software, hardware, ODM, and vendor partners
  • Provide technical guidance and planning for a team of validation engineers; mentor engineers and improve standards for data quality and rigor
  • Partner with manufacturing, production, and data center teams to transfer characterization learnings into production screens and fleet health monitoring

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Demonstrated hands-on validation and characterization experience on complex ASICs, SoCs, NICs, or high-speed interfaces
  • Proven experience with PVT (Process / Voltage / Temperature) characterization
  • Ability to read and reason about schematics and either power delivery networks or high-speed interface implementations
  • Proficiency in Python for test development, lab automation, and/or data analysis
  • Hands-on lab experience with domain-relevant instrumentation

Skills

Required:Validation and characterization strategy

Benefits

  • Benefits information available on Meta careers site (not exhaustively listed here)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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