Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for a Sr. Staff Post Silicon Validation Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title: Sr. Staff Post Silicon Validation Engineer

Job Type: Fulltime

Job Location: Austin, TX or Palo Alto, CA

Work Schedule: Onsite 5 days a week

The candidate will focus on developing Post-Silicon validation plan, debug tools, and infrastructure for a custom SoCs and Platform designs for Autopilot and AI. As a Senior member in the Silicon Validation team, the candidate will interface with many different cross functional teams as well as external vendors/partners to create detailed bringup and validation test plans for the IPs within the SOC like CPU, GPU, NOC, Memory, ISP, Neural Net Accelerator etc., and apply the plan in emulation, post-silicon, and platform use cases. In addition, the candidate will be tuning the IP blocks inside the SoC for optimal power/functional performance, and troubleshoot complex hardware bugs and field returns. The candidate will regularly take part in hardware design and schematics review, firmware development, and building automated test infrastructures for running large volume of post silicon system level tests.

The ideal candidate will need to have a deep understanding of Silicon Architecture, especially around different blocks in SoC like compute blocks, caches, interconnects, clock, power, reset, interrupts, MMUs, different power management schemes, and interaction with board level components like DRAM, PCIe, Ethernet etc.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in design/debug of ARM or x86 System on Chip Architectures
• Experience with multiple debug methodologies from System/OS level down to RTL level
• Experience collaborating with IP vendors and Foundry Services for SOC design, development, and production
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams like SW, EE, Mechanical, Thermal, Reliability, Manufacturing, and FAE
• Experience with JTAG, GDB and assembly code debug
• Experience with Statistical Data Analysis and Design of Experiments
• Experience with Electrical Testing and Protocol Analyzer equipment
• Familiar with Linux OS and Scripting

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, or equivalent major with 12+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent experience
• Experience in debug/bringup of one or more of high speed interfaces (DDR, PCIe, CSI, UFS, etc.
• Experience in Programming in C/C++ or Python
• Familiar with Schematics and PCB design

About Maxonic:

Since 2002 Maxonic has been at the forefront of connecting candidate strengths to client challenges. Our award winning, dedicated team of recruiting professionals are specialized by technology, are great listeners, and will seek to find a position that meets the long-term career needs of our candidates. We take pride in the over 10,000 candidates that we have placed, and the repeat business that we earn from our satisfied clients.

Interested in Applying?

Please apply with your most current resume. Feel free to contact Nina Schindler ([email protected]) for more details.