Silicon Engineer, Infrastructure Validation

Meta Careers; Sunnyvale, Austin (CA, TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a hardware/software verification engineer to advance ASIC/SoC validation for data-center silicon in Sunnyvale. You will write tests, debug issues, and collaborate across RTL, firmware and systems teams to bring up first silicon and validate high-speed interfaces.

You should have 2+ years of hands-on experience, a bachelor’s degree, and strong scripting in Python or C/C++ as well as SystemVerilog familiarity; prior exposure to PCIe, DDR and DVFS is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/engineering or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in ASIC or SoC development, validation, or bring-up.
• Experience writing test cases or validation scripts in Python, C/C++, SystemVerilog.
• Experience with troubleshooting silicon products using hardware debug tools.
• Experience collaborating with RTL/Physical design, firmware or systems teams.

Skills

Python

Troubleshooting & debugging

Collaboration across teams

Linux systems

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field

Tools

C/C++

SystemVerilog

PCIe / DDR / SerDes

JTAG / logic analyzers

Emulation/Prototype platforms

DVFS

Linux tooling

Job description

Meta is building custom silicon to power the infrastructure that underlies its family of products and services at global scale. Infrastructure Silicon delivers scalable, reliable custom ASIC solutions for Meta's data center needs and getting from first silicon to fleet-scale production requires a systems-based approach to validation and bring-up.

Our teams work across the full silicon lifecycle, from early architecture and design inputs, pre-silicon validation on simulation and emulation platforms, first-silicon bring-up, post-silicon characterization across process, voltage, and temperature corners, and productization into large fleets. We write tests, build bare-metal environments and reusable frameworks that scale from pre-silicon platforms to production deployments, and we build the automation that lets us do it at volume and velocity.

Requirements

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
• 2+ years of experience in ASIC or SoC development, validation, or first-silicon bring-up.
• Experience writing test cases or validation scripts in Python, C/C++, System Verilog, or a comparable language.
• Experience with troubleshooting, debug and analysis of silicon products, including hardware debug tooling such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, JTAG interfaces, or protocol analyzers.
• Experience collaborating with RTL design or physical design, firmware or systems teams to reproduce and resolve silicon issues.
• Experience across the silicon lifecycle for data center applications such as AI/ML or networking.
• Experience validating high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, HBM, Ethernet, or SerDes in a data center or server silicon context.
• Experience with emulation or prototyping platforms used for pre-silicon validation.
• Exposure to power management validation, including DVFS characterization and low-power state verification on custom silicon.
• Familiarity with UVM-based verification environments and functional coverage closure techniques.
• Experience developing diagnostics frameworks, low-level kernels, or bare-metal test environments for silicon validation.
• Experience with Linux systems, server systems management, and embedded bus protocols such as I2C, SPI, USB, or PCIe.
• Experience with silicon productization, manufacturing test, or fleet-scale deployment.