Senior ML Accelerator IP Validation Engineer

Meta; Sunnyvale (CA); 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 IP Validation Engineer to validate ML accelerator IP across emulation, prototyping, and silicon, partnering with RTL, verification, and ML teams. The role emphasizes HW-SW integration, performance-power characterization, and robust test strategies across platforms.

You will build test setups, analyze data to debug issues, and drive cross-layer resolutions with design and firmware teams. Strong communication and vendor collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in consumer electronics or related fields.
• Experience creating validation plans for hardware products including developing test methodologies for new features and technologies.
• Experience with HW-SW integration and validation of ML accelerators or related programmable compute IP, including workload bring-up, functional debug, performance characterization.
• Familiar with testing common SOC HW interfaces such as AXI, APB, AHB, OCP.
• Experience in troubleshooting with component vendors on test escapes, missing test coverage, etc.

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

Test automation scripting

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AXI

APB

AHB

OCP

Job description

Meta Reality Labs is seeking an IP Validation Engineer to validate ML accelerator IP across emulation, prototyping, and silicon, partnering with RTL, verification, and ML teams. The role emphasizes HW-SW integration, performance-power characterization, and robust test strategies across platforms.

You will build test setups, analyze data to debug issues, and drive cross-layer resolutions with design and firmware teams. Strong communication and vendor collaboration are essential.