Sr. Silicon Validation Software Engineer

About the role

Join as Senior Silicon Validation Software Engineer in Autonomy Hardware and Sensing Systems team. You will be part of the team to build Rivian’s next generation hardware platform including Rivian in-house AI accelerator SoC to enhance vehicle performance and autonomous driving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Work w/ SoC validation team to refine and execute the SoC validation plan
• Use C/C++ software and FPGA technology to validate SoC for the next generation hardware design, enable SoC internal functional blocks and peripheral interfaces
• Develop automatic testing tools and generate test coverage reports
• Build benchmark tools to evaluate performance of the hardware system, including throughput, latency, resource utilization, IO or compute frequency metrics
• Document validation progress and results in Rivian’s tracking system, to maintain good traceability

Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field
• 1-10 years experience in related field
• Good in C/C++ and scripting language (e.g., Python, Linux shell, etc.)
• Good analytical skills, written and verbal communication skills, and a team player

Preferred

• With projects focusing on platform/embedded software development
• Prior experience in AMD Zynq Petalinux development and FPGA design (Verilog)
• Prior experience in AI accelerator
• Prior experience in SoC peripheral interfaces like JTAG, I2C, UART, SPI, ethernet, DDR, PCIe
• Prior experience in camera data processing like MIPI interfaces, ISP, video encoder