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Silicon Validation Engineer, Infrastructure

Meta· Engineering
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Sunnyvale, CA$114k - $172kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Meta is building custom silicon to power its global infrastructure. The Silicon Validation Engineer will work across the full silicon lifecycle (pre-silicon validation, first-silicon bring-up, post-silicon characterization, and production deployment) to validate custom infrastructure ASICs for data center use, developing tests, automation, diagnostics, and validation methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute functional validation plans for custom infrastructure ASICs across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments
  • Write and maintain test cases, validation scripts, and automation targeting simulation, emulation, and silicon platforms
  • Develop production diagnostics frameworks and kernel development targeted at silicon validation and productization from early labs to data center deployments
  • Perform post-silicon bring-up and debug of custom data center chips, including board-level and system-level
  • Root cause and resolve issues across silicon, firmware, driver, board, and test-setup layers using debug tooling and internal interfaces to isolate causes
  • Collaborate with RTL design, physical design, firmware team, systems teams, internal and external partners to reproduce and resolve silicon bugs
  • Build and support validation infrastructure, including test automation frameworks, diagnostics, regression suites, and analysis tooling that scales from the lab to fleet
  • Characterize silicon performance, power, and timing margins across process, voltage, and temperature corners
  • Document validation findings, bug reports, and silicon errata with sufficient detail to drive design corrections, and feed insights from production back into next-generation architecture
  • Contribute to the development of validation methodology and test plans for future silicon generations

Qualifications

  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
  • 2+ years of experience in ASIC or SoC development, validation, or first-silicon bring-up
  • Experience writing test cases or validation scripts in Python, C/C++, System Verilog, or a comparable language
  • Experience with troubleshooting, debug and analysis of silicon products, including hardware debug tooling such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, JTAG interfaces, or protocol analyzers
  • Experience collaborating with RTL design or physical design, firmware or systems teams to reproduce and resolve silicon issues

Skills

Required:Validation scriptingDebug and silicon analysisCollaboration across RTL/physical firmware
Nice to have:Pre- and post-silicon validation

Benefits

  • Benefits information available on Meta careers site
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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