ML Accelerator IP Validation Engineer — On-Device AI

Meta; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 178,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta Reality Labs is seeking an experienced IP Validation Engineer for Machine Learning Accelerators in Austin, TX. You will define validation plans, bring up ML workloads across emulation, prototyping, and silicon, and partner across RTL, ML compiler, firmware, and system teams to ensure robust accelerator performance and power characteristics.

Applicants should have 8+ years in hardware validation for consumer electronics, strong HW-SW integration skills, and experience with SOC interfaces

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years in consumer electronics or related fields.
• Experience creating validation plans for hardware products.
• Experience with HW-SW integration and validation of ML accelerators or related IP.
• Experience with SOC HW interfaces AXI, APB, AHB, OCP.
• Experience debugging test escapes and coverage gaps.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute HW-SW integration, functional validation, and characterization plans for ML accelerator IP across emulation, prototyping, and silicon platforms
• Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies
• For new technologies and features, work closely with design engineering on defining performance-power characterization and validation strategy, as well as detailed test plans
• Participate in design reviews and make recommendations to support overall test strategy
• Create test setups, collect and analyze data to help debug technical issues
• Partner with RTL design, design verification, emulation, SoC architecture, ML compiler, firmware/runtime, and system teams to bring up ML workloads, identify root causes, drive cross-layer issues to resolution, and verify fixes
• Convert large amounts of data into a clear summary to communicate to stakeholders at all levels

Skills

HW-SW integration

Validation planning

ML accelerator validation

Emulation/prototyping

Cross-layer debugging

Data analysis

Test methodology

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

AXI

APB

AHB

OCP

RTL Verification

Job description

Meta Reality Labs is seeking an experienced IP Validation Engineer for Machine Learning Accelerators in Austin, TX. You will define validation plans, bring up ML workloads across emulation, prototyping, and silicon, and partner across RTL, ML compiler, firmware, and system teams to ensure robust accelerator performance and power characteristics.

Applicants should have 8+ years in hardware validation for consumer electronics, strong HW-SW integration skills, and experience with SOC interfaces