Sr Silicon Bring-Up and Integration Engineer
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- Silicon Bring-Up: Perform first-silicon power-on, initialization, configuration, functional bring-up, and debugging of custom SoCs and ASICs.
- Low-Level Silicon Software: Develop C/C++ software, firmware, diagnostics, and Python-based test infrastructure used to configure, control, exercise, and validate custom silicon.
- Pre-Silicon Readiness: Develop bring-up software, test sequences, register-access utilities, diagnostics, and validation capabilities prior to silicon availability using simulation, emulation, FPGA prototypes, or other available pre-silicon platforms.
- HW/SW Integration: Integrate and debug low-level software and firmware with silicon hardware, including initialization sequences, clocks and resets, memory interfaces, peripherals, data paths, and high-speed interfaces.
- Post-Silicon Validation: Develop and execute functional, performance, stress, and corner-condition tests to validate silicon behavior against design and system requirements.
- Silicon Characterization: Support characterization across voltage, temperature, frequency, operating modes, and silicon process variation.
- Complex Debug: Investigate and root-cause failures spanning silicon hardware, RTL, firmware/software, boards, clocks, power, interfaces, and system-level behavior.
- Lab Automation: Develop automated test infrastructure for DUT configuration, lab instrumentation, data collection, regression testing, and analysis.
- Interface Bring-Up: Bring up and debug low-speed and high-speed interfaces such as JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, DDR/LPDDR, and custom chip-to-chip interfaces as applicable.
- Bring-Up Hardware Support: Define requirements for evaluation boards, fixtures, sockets, instrumentation, and debug capabilities required for silicon bring-up and validation, and work closely with board-design teams on their implementation.
- Cross-Functional Integration: Collaborate closely with ASIC architecture/design, verification, firmware/software, RF/DSP, board, system, manufacturing, and test teams to resolve silicon integration issues.
- Silicon Maturation: Support issues from initial engineering samples through characterization, validation, and production readiness, including verification of hardware and software fixes across silicon revisions.
Now Minimum Qualifications list:
- 7+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC bring-up, post-silicon validation, embedded systems, silicon integration, or closely related fields.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on experience with ASIC or SoC bring-up, post-silicon validation, or low-level hardware/software integration.
- Strong C/C++ programming experience for low-level hardware control, embedded software, firmware, or silicon diagnostics.
- Strong Python or equivalent scripting experience for test automation, instrumentation, and data analysis.
- Strong understanding of SoC architecture, memory-mapped registers, interrupts, DMA, clock/reset architecture, memory systems, and hardware/software interfaces.
- Experience with low-level interfaces and debug protocols such as JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, or DDR/LPDDR.
- Hands-on experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum/signal analyzers, power supplies, and other silicon bring-up and validation equipment.
- Demonstrated ability to debug complex problems spanning hardware, firmware/software, and system boundaries.
- Ability to read schematics, silicon specifications, register maps, timing diagrams, and hardware design documentation.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Preferred Qualifications list:
- Experience with first-silicon bring-up of complex custom ASICs or SoCs.
- Experience developing post-silicon validation frameworks, diagnostics, and automated regression environments.
- Experience debugging high-speed SerDes, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, or custom chip-to-chip interfaces.
- Experience with mixed-signal SoCs containing ADCs, DACs, PLLs, clocking, RF, or other analog/mixed-signal subsystems.
- Understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, clocking, reset sequencing, and board-level effects on silicon operation.
- Familiarity with Linux device drivers, embedded RTOS environments, boot flows, and low-level firmware.
- Experience with silicon characterization across voltage, temperature, frequency, and process corners.
- Experience supporting root-cause analysis and validating RTL, firmware, software, or silicon fixes.
Benefits list:
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
- Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.
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