Senior Silicon Validation Engineer, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Tel Aviv, Israel +1

Senior Silicon Validation Engineer responsible for defining, developing, and executing post-silicon validation content for custom silicon solutions powering Google's direct-to-consumer products and Google Cloud AI platform. This role involves debugging issues across cross-functional teams and driving silicon from chip to product, ensuring quality functional coverage.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define, develop and execute post-silicon validation content on both pre-silicon setups and real silicon platforms in the lab.
  2. Drive silicon from being a chip towards becoming a product.
  3. Debug and investigate issues along cross-functional teams such as firmware, software, design, design verification (DV), architecture (ARCH) and multiple production teams.
  4. Provides a quality functional coverage for Google designs.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • functional tests for silicon validation
  • writing C or C++
  • developing firmware
  • embedded software
  • silicon bring-up
  • functional validation
  • characterizing silicon
  • qualifying silicon

Nice to have

  • Core architecture knowledge
  • hardware prototyping
  • hardware/software integration
  • pre-silicon use of emulation
  • software-based test
  • diagnostics development
  • code and system health, diagnosis and resolution
  • software test engineering
  • object oriented programming
  • functional programming
  • SystemVerilog register transfer level (RTL) code
  • Excellent software skills
  • design practices

What the JD emphasized

  • 8 years of experience with functional tests for silicon validation
  • 5 years of experience in silicon bring-up, functional validation, characterizing, and qualifying silicon