Silicon Validation Engineer, Networking

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

Silicon Validation Engineer for Google's direct-to-consumer products, focusing on custom silicon solutions and hardware experiences. Responsibilities include defining, developing, and executing post-silicon validation content, debugging issues with cross-functional teams, and ensuring quality functional coverage. Requires experience with functional tests for silicon validation using C/C++ and silicon bring-up.

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 (FW), Software (SW), Design, Design Verification (DV), Architecture (ARCH) and multiple production teams.
  4. Provide a quality functional coverage for Google designs.
  5. Test development and automation, design, implement, and maintain validation tests using scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, C/C++).

Skills

Required

  • functional tests for silicon validation using C or C++
  • silicon bring-up, functional validation, characterizing, and qualifying silicon
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, related fields, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

  • packet processing, data path, packet buffering, scheduler, networking protocols offload engine
  • PCIe interface, PCIe Internal Switch, PCIe components RP/EP, and link establishment
  • hardware prototyping, including hardware/software integration (i.e., pre-silicon use of emulation, software-based test, and diagnostics development)
  • L1/L2 layers, Ethernet SerDes (Serializer/Deserializer), Media Access Control+Physical Coding Sublayer (MAC+PCS)

What the JD emphasized

  • functional tests for silicon validation using C or C++
  • silicon bring-up, functional validation, characterizing, and qualifying silicon