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Silicon Validation Engineer, Software
San Jose · Mid
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About the role
- Your work directly enables functional correctness, performance, and reliability of our cutting-edge products.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own low-level validation firmware in C/C++ that runs across emulation and physical silicon, providing test content pre-silicon and reusing it to drive post-silicon bring-up.
- Drive early bring-up of first silicon: boot, initialization, feature enablement, and debug of ASICs.
- Perform deep-dive debug of silicon issues spanning firmware, RTL, electrical, protocol, and system levels
- Build firmware infrastructure including hardware abstraction layers (HALs) and low-level device drivers for compute units, memory subsystems, and high-speed interfaces.
- Develop and extend validation automation, result-capture, and regression frameworks (CI/CD) to run validation at scale.
- Validate and characterize custom IP blocks and accelerator components on both pre- and post-silicon platforms.
- Collaborate closely with design, verification, architecture, DFT, and driver teams to ensure a smooth transition from pre-silicon verification to post-silicon validation, and to feed silicon issues back into revisions and firmware/driver workarounds.
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Requirements
- RTOS experience (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, NuttX) or RISC-V firmware development.
- Familiarity with platform/system firmware (UEFI, ACPI, BMC, BIOS).
- Ability to read RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog) and debug in simulation.
- You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)
Nice to have
- root-cause and resolve failures.
- execute functional, performance, and stress/corner-case testing.
- Use debug consoles and lab tooling (JTAG, UART, logic/protocol analyzers) for silicon debug and characterization.
- Proficiency in C/C++ for firmware and bare-metal development, plus Python for validation automation and scripting.
- Understanding of SoC/computer architecture (CPU cores, memory subsystems, caches, interconnects).
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and cross-functional collaboration skills across hardware and software teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (Master's a plus).
- 2+ years of experience developing firmware / embedded software for ASICs or SoCs
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Author firmware-driven test plans and define coverage metrics across IP blocks and subsystems
Company info
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes.
- We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills.
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