Senior Silicon Validation Engineer - SoC Bring-Up & Debug

MatX; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO & holidays

Healthcare & dental Vision

401K with company match

Professional development budget

Team meals & reimbursements

Commuting reimbursement

Mental health benefits

Job summary

MatX is building a compute platform for AGI and seeks silicon micro-architects and design engineers to deliver high-performance silicon for GenAI products. You will own silicon bring-up and validation from first power-on through production readiness, developing validation plans and working across DV, emulation, lab validation, and package validation.

Candidates should have hands-on silicon validation experience, ability to debug complex cross-functional failures, and familiarity with C/C++,

Qualifications

• Hands-on silicon validation and post-silicon bring-up experience.
• Experience validating complex SoCs or accelerators.
• Strong understanding of digital hardware and SoC architecture.
• Ability to debug cross-functional failures to root cause.
• Experience with real silicon and lab platforms.
• Familiarity with firmware, drivers, and low-level hardware access.
• Ability to read specifications, register descriptions, and RTL.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own silicon bring-up and validation from power-on through feature validation and production readiness.
• Develop and execute validation plans for chip-level and SiP-level functionality, performance, reliability, and system behavior.
• Validate boot, reset, initialization, power management, recovery, memory, interconnect, high-speed interfaces, and package-level functionality.
• Work across Top-level DV, Palladium emulation, lab validation, and package validation to improve coverage and correlation between environments.
• Debug complex failures using logs, registers, traces, waveforms, firmware output, and lab equipment.
• Analyze issues across RTL, firmware, software, board, package, and silicon boundaries.
• Collaborate with architecture, design, DV, emulation, firmware, software, and product engineering teams.
• Define observability and debug requirements and improve validation automation, execution, and failure triage.

Skills

silicon validation

post-silicon bring-up

hardware emulation

Top-level DV

cross-functional collaboration

debug complex failures

read C/C++ for debug

Python scripting

Tools

Cadence Palladium

SystemVerilog

UVM

assertions

waveform debugging

Job description

MatX is building a compute platform for AGI and seeks silicon micro-architects and design engineers to deliver high-performance silicon for GenAI products. You will own silicon bring-up and validation from first power-on through production readiness, developing validation plans and working across DV, emulation, lab validation, and package validation.

Candidates should have hands-on silicon validation experience, ability to debug complex cross-functional failures, and familiarity with C/C++,