Senior Post-Silicon Validation Engineer — Space-Grade SoCs

K2 Space; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in the company

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Life insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

K2 Space seeks a hands-on Senior Post-Silicon Validation Engineer to own silicon bring-up, validation, and system-level testing for complex mixed-signal SoCs. You will define validation strategy, build test capability from scratch, and lead execution from first silicon through product readiness.

You will collaborate with RF/analog, DSP, FPGA, firmware, and systems teams to accelerate bring-up, develop automation, and ensure robust validation across power, clocks, and interfaces.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
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Responsibilities

• Own post-silicon validation strategy, test planning, execution, coverage, and sign-off.
• Lead first silicon bring-up across power, clocks, debug interfaces, processor/memory subsystems, peripherals, and high-speed interfaces.
• Define and execute the validation strategy and readiness criteria needed to enable product integration, ensuring silicon, firmware, test infrastructure, and system interfaces are ready for integration.
• Own system-level test planning and execution, including functional, performance, stress, and corner-case testing.
• Help build the test and validation lab from the ground up, including equipment, infrastructure, test setups, and automated characterization and regression environments.
• Partner with RF/analog and mixed-signal designers on characterization of RF chains, PLLs, ADCs/DACs, clocking, and power.
• Work closely with systems/DSP teams to validate DSP and calibration algorithms on silicon and correlate measured performance with models and simulations.
• Partner with FPGA, firmware, RTL/DV, hardware, and systems teams to accelerate silicon bring-up, enable product integration, and drive end-to-end validation.
• Drive cross-functional debug across silicon, firmware, RTL, package, board, and system boundaries.
• Build reusable automation for instrumentation control, data collection, analysis, regression, and reporting.
• Drive silicon issues from discovery through root cause, workaround, and resolution.

Skills

Python scripting

Embedded C/C++

SoC bring-up

Lab automation

RF/mixed-signal

Debug skills

JTAG/SPI/UART

DSP calibration

Education

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Spectrum analyzers

Vector signal generators

Network analyzers

Logic analyzers

Power supplies

RF instrumentation

Job description

K2 Space seeks a hands-on Senior Post-Silicon Validation Engineer to own silicon bring-up, validation, and system-level testing for complex mixed-signal SoCs. You will define validation strategy, build test capability from scratch, and lead execution from first silicon through product readiness.

You will collaborate with RF/analog, DSP, FPGA, firmware, and systems teams to accelerate bring-up, develop automation, and ensure robust validation across power, clocks, and interfaces.