Senior Silicon Validation Engineer, Google Cloud
Google · Posted Oct 19
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About the role
The team develops custom silicon solutions for Google's direct-to-consumer products and works within the Technical Infrastructure organization. The role focuses on post-silicon validation and hardware emulation for next-generation hardware, including bring-up, debugging, and functional coverage. The engineer will also help operate and maintain pre-silicon emulation platforms.
What you will do
- Develop and execute tests in post-silicon validation and on hardware emulators and assist in bring-up processes from prototyping through post-silicon validation.
- Drive debugging and investigation efforts to root-cause complex, cross-functional issues, including pre-silicon prototyping platforms as well as post-silicon bring-up and production.
- Ensure validation provides necessary functional coverage for confident design.
- Help operate and maintain our hardware emulation platform for pre-silicon integration and validation.
Skills used in this role
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
- Experience in Scripting such as Python for automation development.
- Experience in hardware emulation, including hardware/software integration (i.e., pre-silicon use of emulation and software-based test and diagnostics development).
- Experience with power characterization, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), and Double Data Rate (DDR).
- Knowledge of SoC architecture, including boot flows.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Google
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. As a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., it is widely recognized for services like Google Search, YouTube, Android, and the Gemini AI ecosystem.
- Industry
- Internet
- Company size
- 180000+ employees
- Founded
- 1998-09-04
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25M raised
- 1999-06-07Series A$25M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer
Chief Executive Officer, Google Cloud
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