SOC Verification Graduate Intern
Tesla · Posted Nov 3
Electric vehicles, solar panels, and integrated clean energy storage solutions
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About the role
The Tesla AI Hardware team designs advanced AI inference chips and custom silicon that power the neural networks behind Full Self-Driving (FSD) and the Optimus humanoid robot, focusing on computational efficiency and performance. The team works across AI-driven automotive and energy solutions, from architecture through silicon bring-up. This graduate internship focuses on pre-silicon RTL verification of block and top-level SOC, building metric-driven, configurable UVM-based verification environments in collaboration with design, architecture, software, firmware, and external IP teams.
What you will do
- Work with team members to define and set up a SOC-level verification environment.
- Architect highly reusable UVM based test benches and integrate complex multi-instance VIPs, sub-system test benches, and test suites at the SOC level.
- Work with Design, Architecture, SW, FW and external IP delivery teams to efficiently integrate and verify the design.
- Create coverage driven verification plans from specifications.
- Execute, review, and refine to achieve coverage targets.
- Define and review verification and validation test plans created by other members of the team.
- Assist with Post-silicon validation and SOC bring-up.
- Understand details of High Efficiency SOC - Architecture, standard SOC peripherals and I/O (e.g. DDR, PCIe, USB), DMA, memory management schemes, multi-processor systems, Memory Controller Sub.
- Systems, PLL, power up and Secured Boot schemes.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Fresh Graduates are welcome, hands-on DV experience would be a plus.
- Relevant internship experience is a plus.
- Strong programming skills in UVM, C/C++, Python/Perl.
- Experience verifying CPU/GPU integration at the SOC level.
- Coherency verification at the SOC level.
- Emulation experience, working on available platforms such as Palladium, or Zebu.
- Experience in SOC bring-up and post-silicon verification.
- Post-silicon validation and SOC bring-up.
- HW/FW interaction verification.
- Reset and power verification.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Tesla
Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company that designs, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles, battery energy storage systems, and solar panels. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company is dedicated to accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy through innovative technology and engineering. Its product ecosystem ranges from mass-market passenger cars and commercial semi-trucks to advanced energy generation and storage solutions.
- Industry
- Automotive
- Company size
- 125000+ employees
- Founded
- 2003
- Location
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $6.0B raised
- 2020-05-18Post Ipo Debt$5.0B
Leadership
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer & Director
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer
Senior Vice President, Automotive
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
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