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ISP Silicon Validation Engineer

Google
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Mountain View, CA, USA$116k - $165kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. Contribute to innovation behind products loved by millions, shaping the next generation of hardware experiences with high performance, efficiency, and integration.

Responsibilities

  • Translate hardware specifications into test suites, executing them across pre-silicon emulation and post-silicon hardware goals.
  • Architect and write custom validation pipelines primarily in C, executed natively inside baremetal environments to probe the hardware directly.
  • Deep-dive into the micro-architecture of real-time and non-real-time hardware accelerators, validating functionality, performance throughput, and power footprints.
  • Partner with Architecture, RTL Design, and downstream Software teams to trace, reproduce, and conquer hardware-software boundary bugs.
  • Develop analytical scripts and validation frameworks to speed up the testing pipeline and ensure robust data collection.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1 year of experience in computer architecture, memory management, and low-level hardware components.
  • Experience programming in C for low-level, embedded, microcontroller, or baremetal applications.
  • Experience writing code to interface directly with hardware (e.g., handling interrupts, reading/writing registers, or manipulating peripherals).
  • Experience in scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) for script automation or analytical data collection.

Skills

Required:C programming for embedded/baremetalHardware validationScripting (Python, Bash)

Benefits

  • Learn more about benefits at Google (link provided in job description)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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