Silicon Validation Engineer, CPU

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test procedures to establish functionality of the new silicon.
• Debug failures with cross-functional teams for silicon, boards, software, and manufacturing.
• Provide regular updates about silicon health to platform, software and volume manufacturing teams.
• Plan, develop, and execute tests to validate CPU subsystem and integration at the system level.
• Validate design on pre-silicon and post-silicon platforms and support silicon debug and field failures, interface with software, architecture, design, and DV teams to create test plans.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in developing test and debug infrastructure (software tools, lab equipment) and test/lab automation scripting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience programming in C, embedded C, and with scripting in Python/Perl/Tcl.
• Experience executing tests on emulation platforms, or FPGA and with JTAG debuggers (e.g. Lauterbach).
• Experience with complex system debug, embedded operating systems and bare metal programming.
• Knowledge of programming, debugging, protocol debugging, C, design validation, technical troubleshooting, test coverage, test automation, embedded systems, ARM processor, ARM CPU architecture, and ARMv8/ARMv9 ISA.
• Knowledge of OS fundamentals, pre-silicon (Emulation), and post silicon.
• Ability to define a silicon validation test plan by reading the specification, CPU uArch and coherent fabric, with excellent silicon debugging skills.