Lead Silicon Bring-Up & Validation Engineer

Doist; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 475,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Professional development budget

Remote work options

401(k) retirement

Job summary

MatX is seeking silicon micro-architects and design engineers to bring up and validate powerful silicon for GenAI workloads. You will own end-to-end validation, from first power-on through production readiness, coordinating across DV, emulation, and lab validation to ensure robust, high-performance silicon in a fast-paced environment.

Ideal candidates have strong hands-on experience with SoCs, post-silicon bring-up, and hardware-firmware interactions, plus scripting in Python and C/C++. U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, hardware emulation, Top-level DV, or a closely related field.
• Experience validating complex SoCs, accelerators, compute devices, or highly integrated silicon products.
• Strong understanding of digital hardware, SoC architecture, and hardware-firmware interactions.
• Proven ability to debug complex failures across hardware, firmware, software, package, and validation-environment boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own silicon bring-up and validation activities from first power-on through feature validation, characterization, qualification, and production readiness.
• Develop and execute validation plans for chip-level and SiP-level functionality, performance, reliability, and system behavior.
• Validate power-up, initialization, boot, reset, recovery, power-management, and error-handling flows.
• Validate compute, memory, interconnect, data-movement, high-speed interface, and package-level functionality.
• Create and execute high-stress workloads that exercise bandwidth, latency, concurrency, coherency, error handling, and long-duration operation.
• Work across DV, Palladium emulation, lab validation, and package validation to shift validation left and improve correlation between environments.
• Reuse and adapt validation scenarios across simulation, emulation, and silicon where practical.
• Bring up complex hardware and debug failures using registers, logs, traces, waveforms, firmware output, diagnostics, protocol analyzers, and lab equipment.
• Analyze failures across RTL, firmware, drivers, software, board, package, and silicon boundaries.
• Collaborate with architecture and design teams to understand intended behavior, microarchitecture, performance expectations, and available debug mechanisms.
• Track validation coverage, execution status, failures, risks, and readiness against product milestones.

Skills

Silicon validation

Hardware debugging

Python scripting

Lab troubleshooting

C/C++ debugging

DV/Emulation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

Tools

Cadence Palladium

Oscilloscopes

Waveform analyzers

JTAG/protocol analyzers

Job description

MatX is seeking silicon micro-architects and design engineers to bring up and validate powerful silicon for GenAI workloads. You will own end-to-end validation, from first power-on through production readiness, coordinating across DV, emulation, and lab validation to ensure robust, high-performance silicon in a fast-paced environment.

Ideal candidates have strong hands-on experience with SoCs, post-silicon bring-up, and hardware-firmware interactions, plus scripting in Python and C/C++. U.S.