What You'll Do Here- Own silicon bring-up and validation from first power-on through feature validation and production readiness.
- Develop and execute validation plans for chip-level and SiP-level functionality, performance, reliability, and system behavior.
- Validate boot, reset, initialization, power management, recovery, memory, interconnect, high-speed interfaces, and package-level functionality.
- Work across Top-level DV, Palladium emulation, lab validation, and package validation to improve coverage and correlation between environments.
- Debug complex failures using logs, registers, traces, waveforms, firmware output, and lab equipment.
- Analyze issues across RTL, firmware, software, board, package, and silicon boundaries.
- Collaborate with architecture, design, DV, emulation, firmware, software, and product engineering teams.
- Define observability and debug requirements and improve validation automation, execution, and failure triage.
Who You Are- Strong hands-on experience in silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, hardware emulation, Top-level DV, or a related field.
- Experience validating complex SoCs, accelerators, or highly integrated silicon products.
- Strong understanding of digital hardware, SoC architecture, and hardware-firmware interaction.
- Proven ability to debug complex cross-functional failures and drive them to root cause.
- Experience working with real silicon and lab platforms.
- Familiarity with firmware, embedded software, drivers, and low-level hardware access.
- Ability to read and understand C or C++ code for debug purposes.
- Python or similar scripting experience.
- Ability to read specifications, register descriptions, validation plans, and relevant RTL.
- Strong ownership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Bonus Points If You Have- Experience with both pre-silicon and post-silicon validation.
- Experience with Cadence Palladium.
- Experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, assertions, coverage, or waveform debug.
- Experience bringing up first silicon.
- Experience with HBM, DDR, PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, die-to-die interfaces, or advanced packaging.
- Familiarity with JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or protocol analyzers.
CompensationThe US base salary for this full-time position is determined based on a variety of factors including role, experience, location, job related skills, and relevant education and training. Career length is only a guideline for compensation.
- Early Career - $120,000 - $275,000 + equity
- Mid Career - $175,000 - $450,000 + equity
- Senior Career - $275,000 - $475,000 + equity
What We Offer- A Stake in our success A cash/equity mix that fits your needs and option to do early exercise
- Health & Wellness Company subsidized Health, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance; Pre-tax Health Savings Accounts with generous company contribution (even if you don't)
- Time To Recharge 4 weeks paid time off (accrued), 12 company holidays, and 3 weeks remote/flexible work per year
- Support to Parents Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of your path to parenthood
- Learning & Development $1,500 yearly towards your professional development e.g. conferences, courses, and other learning opportunities
- Team Connection Team Lunches, quarterly off-sites, and regular town halls
- Financial Wellbeing 401K and/or Roth IRA, with 5% company contribution, even if you don't!
- Flexible Spending Accounts Pre-tax spend accounts for medical, dental/vision, dependent care, parking, and transit expenses
- Commute On Us For those commuting up to 1 hour, put your rideshare cost on our company card and reclaim the drive-time to get work done!
- MatX E[x]tras $50 per month to use on the perks you care about most
- Remote Perks We work remotely Monday & Friday, supported by home-tech setup, and remote wifi expense reimbursement
