ASIC Validation Engineer

The Role

We are looking for an ASIC Validation Engineer to help bridge the gap between custom mining silicon design and real-world operation. In this highly hands-on, lab-focused role, you'll work closely with ASIC designers and system engineers to debug issues, build test infrastructure, and generate the data needed to enable rapid design iteration and system-level development.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Bring up new silicon on bench platforms, evaluation boards, and system hardware
• Debug issues across ASIC, board, firmware, and system interactions
• Develop bench tests, scripts, and tools to exercise silicon features and collect data
• Build and maintain test setups (lab automation, instrumentation, fixtures, scripts)
• Partner with ASIC designers to validate functionality and root-cause failures
• Work with system engineers to ensure silicon performs correctly in target system environments, including mining systems
• Generate and analyze data to support design decisions, characterization, and bring-up
• Create lightweight, reusable test workflows and documentation for the broader team
• Support early manufacturing efforts with practical validation and debug, as needed
• Travel up to 20% to the labs in Oakland, CA or Toronto, Canada

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 4+ years of experience in silicon validation, hardware test, or related roles
• Strong hands-on experience in a lab environment (bench bring-up, debugging, instrumentation)
• Solid understanding of digital systems and basic analog concepts
• Experience writing scripts or tools (Python preferred) for test and data analysis
• Comfortable debugging issues that span multiple layers (ASIC ↔ board ↔ system)
• Clear communication skills and ability to work closely with cross-functional teams

Preferred Experience

• With ASIC or FPGA bring-up and validation
• Familiarity with common interfaces (SPI, I2C, JTAG, UART, etc.)
• Experience using lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, etc.)
• Exposure to high-performance, power-dense systems (e.g., mining ASICs, accelerators, or similar)
• Experience building test automation or internal tooling
• Familiarity with data analysis and visualization

Why This Role Matters

This role enables the team to move fast. By building the right test infrastructure and quickly turning hardware behavior into actionable data, you'll help both ASIC and system teams iterate faster and make better decisions across silicon and mining system development.