Senior Silicon Electrical Validation Engineer, Google Cloud

Google; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Bengaluru is seeking a senior hardware validation engineer to develop and execute post-silicon tests, assist in pre-silicon bring-up, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure robust silicon. You will contribute to hardware emulation, lab debugging, and thorough characterization to support TPUs and AI hardware initiatives.

This role offers involvement across software-hardware integration and cutting-edge silicon projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent practical experience in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of experience with functional tests for silicon validation or embedded software development (C/C++/Python).
• Experience with silicon bring-up, validation, characterization and qualification.
• Experience with board schematics, layout, debugging using lab equipment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute post-silicon tests on hardware and emulators.
• Lead debugging and root-cause analysis for cross-functional issues (pre- and post-silicon).
• Ensure functional coverage and validation sufficiency for designs.
• Operate and maintain hardware emulation platform for pre-silicon integration and validation.

Skills

Functional tests

Silicon bring-up

Board debugging with lab equipment

Education

Bachelor's degree (EE/CE/CS)

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with functional tests for silicon validation (e.g., C, C++ or Python) or developing embedded software.
• Experience in silicon bring-up, functional validation, characterizing, and qualifying silicon.
• Experience with board schematics, layout, and debug methodologies using lab equipment.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
• 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).
• Experience in scripting (e.g., Python) for automation development.
• Knowledge of SoC architecture, including boot flows.

About The Job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google’s direct-to-consumer products. You’ll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We’re the driving team behind Google’s groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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