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Job Description
As a Sr Silicon Bring-Up and Integration Engineer, you will be a key hands-on member of the team responsible for bringing complex custom SoCs and ASICs from pre-silicon development through physical silicon bring-up, validation, and system integration.
You will develop low-level C/C++ software, diagnostics, and Python-based test infrastructure used to configure, control, exercise, and validate custom silicon. You will work closely with ASIC design, verification, firmware, board, RF/DSP, and system engineering teams to support first-silicon bring-up, characterize device behavior, and debug complex hardware/software integration issues.
This role is highly technical and hands-on and requires the ability to work across silicon hardware, low-level software, lab instrumentation, and system-level debugging.
Special Mentions
Relocation provided
Travel expected up to 20% of the time
Interviews will include a technical assessment
This role is based onsite in San Diego, Kent, WA, or Austin, TX. A temporary remote work exception is approved while our San Diego and Austin sites are being developed.
Responsibilities Include but Are Not Limited To
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,…