Senior Silicon Validation Engineer (Pre/Post‑Silicon)

Meta; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta's Infrastructure Silicon team is seeking an experienced Silicon Validation Engineer to validate custom ASICs from pre-silicon to post-silicon deployment, spanning hardware, firmware, and software.

You will build emulation platforms, define validation strategies, and lead end-to-end validation efforts across RTL, emulation, and production fleets, collaborating with RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams in Sunnyvale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years in ASIC/SoC cycles with pre-silicon and/or post-silicon validation, hardware verification, or FPGA emulation.
• Experience troubleshooting, debug, and analytics for silicon products using waveform viewers, logic analyzers, and probes.
• Experience with ASIC design, emulation, and post-silicon validation.
• Experience developing automation scripts and test infrastructure in Python, C/C++.
• Experience collaborating across RTL design, verification, firmware, software, and systems in a custom silicon environment.

Responsibilities

• Work across all aspects of the silicon lifecycle from design input to fleet deployment.
• Define and execute silicon validation strategies, plans, coverage models, and regression frameworks.
• Develop and maintain emulation infrastructure, including FPGA-based bring-up.
• Partition RTL onto emulation platforms and optimize timing and resources.
• Build software, scripting and automation for validation workflows and diagnostics.
• Debug hardware, firmware and software interactions across RTL, firmware and software layers.
• Root-cause silicon issues and remediate across the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with RTL design/verification to fix bugs before tape-out.
• Ensure emulation content transitions cleanly to lab and data center bring-up.
• Incorporate production insights to guide next-gen architecture and tool upgrades.

Skills

Silicon validation

Debug & analytics

Automation scripting

Python/C/C++

RTL collaboration

Education

Bachelors in CS/CE or equivalent

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Palladium

Veloce

Zebu

Job description

Meta's Infrastructure Silicon team is seeking an experienced Silicon Validation Engineer to validate custom ASICs from pre-silicon to post-silicon deployment, spanning hardware, firmware, and software.

You will build emulation platforms, define validation strategies, and lead end-to-end validation efforts across RTL, emulation, and production fleets, collaborating with RTL, verification, firmware, and software teams in Sunnyvale.