Semiconductor Performance Validation Engineer

UST

Arizona

On-site

USD 48,000 - 72,000

Full time

11 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation
Paid holidays
401(k) with employer matching
Medical/dental/vision insurance

Job summary

UST is seeking a Validation Engineer to join the Associate I - Semiconductor Product Validation track in Chandler, AZ. You will conduct performance testing across CPU, memory, storage, graphics, and GPU compute workloads, and triage issues found during validation.

The role emphasizes benchmarking, scripting, and post‑silicon validation, with opportunities to work on a variety of processor and display pipelines in a global engineering environment.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
  • 2+ yrs experience in platform/BIOS/system validation of servers or client computers.
  • Familiarity with performance benchmarking tools.
  • Bash/Python scripting knowledge or C/C++ programming will be a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Benchmarking and workload execution.
  • Run CPU benchmarks (SPEC CPU, Geekbench, Coremark).
  • Execute memory bandwidth/latency tests (STREAM, lmbench, MLC).
  • Storage I/O benchmarking.
  • Network throughput testing.
  • Graphics & Media benchmarking.
  • GPU compute performance testing.
  • Video encode/decode throughput validation.
  • Display pipeline performance testing.
  • NPU performance testing.
  • Triage of issues detected during testing.
  • Sanity testing.
  • Regression testing.

Skills

Performance testing
Shell scripting
Debugging
BIOS
Post‑silicon validation
NPU performance testing
Regression testing
Display pipeline performance testing
Network throughput testing
Storage I/O benchmarking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

SPEC CPU
Geekbench
Coremark
STREAM
lmbench
MLC (Memory Latency Checker)

Job description

UST is seeking a Validation Engineer to join the Associate I - Semiconductor Product Validation track in Chandler, AZ. You will conduct performance testing across CPU, memory, storage, graphics, and GPU compute workloads, and triage issues found during validation.

The role emphasizes benchmarking, scripting, and post‑silicon validation, with opportunities to work on a variety of processor and display pipelines in a global engineering environment.

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