Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Validation Engineer with expertise in Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon validation of SoCs/ASICs, extensive knowledge of high-speed and low-speed peripheral interfaces, and strong Embedded Software/Firmware development skills. The ideal candidate will drive validation strategy, test development, debug, silicon bring-up, and product qualification activities from architecture review through production readiness.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon Validation.
• Strong understanding of SoC architecture and subsystem interactions.
• Experience with ARM-based multicore SoCs and embedded systems.
• Deep understanding of hardware-software interaction.
• Experience with lab equipment and protocol analyzers.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Review architecture, micro-architecture, and design specifications for SoC/IP features.
• Develop validation plans, test strategies, and coverage metrics.
• Work closely with Design, Verification, Firmware, and Architecture teams to ensure feature completeness and quality.

• Develop and execute validation test plans on FPGA, Emulation, and Silicon platforms.
• Develop validation plan for stress test scenarios for subsystem and SoC-level
• Lead first-silicon bring-up and characterization activities.
• Validate functional correctness and compliance.
• Debug silicon issues using logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, oscilloscopes, SWD, and trace tools.
• Root cause failures and drive corrective actions with cross-functional teams.
• Support customer issue resolution and field failure analysis.

• Strong experience validating and debugging for the peripherals QSPI, XSPI, I2S, UART, SPI, I2C/I3C, CAN / CAN-FD, LIN
• Peripheral Compliance and interoperability testing.
  • Throughput-Speed, latency, stress, and error injection testing.
  • PHY and controller-level debug.

• Develop Embedded C firmware for silicon validation.
• Create board bring-up software and diagnostic frameworks.
• Develop bare-metal, RTOS, based validation applications.
• Driver development and debugging for peripheral interfaces.
• Implement test automation frameworks for silicon validation.
• Develop scripts using Python, Shell, or Perl for automation and data analysis.
• Analyze boot flow, initialization sequences, and firmware interactions.
• Debug firmware, hardware, and system-level issues.

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