Silicon Test and Validation Engineer

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. is seeking an engineer to advance post-silicon validation and product engineering. You will integrate design-for-test, bring-up and production learnings to shape next designs, especially where evidence is incomplete.

In the first 90 days you will deliver a bring-up plan, fixtures spec and a traceable failure-triage workflow. The role emphasizes disciplined lab work, reproducibility, and collaboration with design partners across locations.

Qualifications

• DFT, post-silicon validation, or product engineering experience.
• Disciplined, reproducible lab work: somebody else can repeat what you did.
• Careful handling of incomplete evidence, without over-claiming a root cause.
• You feed production learning back into design rather than only shipping around it.

Responsibilities

• Plan scan, memory self-test and manufacturing test coverage with design partners.
• Develop board-level bring-up and characterization across operating conditions.
• Correlate failures with design evidence, track yield and distinguish silicon defects from firmware or board problems.
• In your first 90 days after program activation, deliver a bring-up plan, test fixtures specification and a traceable failure-triage workflow.

Skills

DFT

Post-silicon validation

Product engineering

Job description

You make sure every shipped chip behaves correctly beyond the simulator, joining design-for-test, bring-up and what production teaches you back into the next design. Post-silicon is where incomplete evidence is the normal condition: you will have a handful of parts, a symptom that appears intermittently, and pressure to name a root cause. Handling that carefully, and being willing to say the evidence does not yet support a conclusion, is the skill.

Plan scan, memory self-test and manufacturing test coverage with design partners. Develop board-level bring-up and characterization across operating conditions. Correlate failures with design evidence, track yield and distinguish silicon defects from firmware or board problems.

In your first 90 days after program activation, deliver a bring-up plan, test fixtures specification and a traceable failure-triage workflow.

Bring experience in DFT, post-silicon validation or product engineering. Show disciplined measurement, reproducible lab work and careful handling of incomplete evidence.

Required:

• DFT, post-silicon validation, or product engineering experience
• Disciplined, reproducible lab work: somebody else can repeat what you did
• Careful handling of incomplete evidence, without over-claiming a root cause
• You feed production learning back into design rather than only shipping around it

Nice to have:

• ATE and production test program development
• Yield analysis
• You have run a first bring-up

The exercise:

Investigate a failure that appears only after warm restart at a particular voltage and describe how you would isolate its cause.

How we work:

We work together in the office, five days a week, and you can be based at any of our garages: Kirkland Garage (Kirkland, WA); UAE Garage (Dubai, Dubai). We hire across the United States, India and the UAE. We are remote-friendly around family: if you need to work from home some days to look after the people you love, we arrange that with you one person at a time, and we encourage people to use it rather than tough it out.

Pay:

We publish what we pay. Indicative ranges by market and level are on our compensation page, and they are realistic going market rates rather than headline numbers. Wherever we hire we pay at least the local market rate, and for full-time roles our floor is a living wage, never the statutory minimum. Compensation is reviewed every year and on promotion.

Equity:

Every full-time teammate gets stock options. Four-year vesting with a one-year cliff, sized to role, level and impact, and confirmed in writing at offer. High performers earn refresh grants.

Bonus and commission:

An annual performance bonus tied to clear company and personal goals, indicatively 10 to 20 percent of base for non-sales roles. Customer-facing roles carry on-target earnings, typically a 50/50 split of base and variable, with uncapped commission and accelerators above quota.

Health and peace of mind:

Medical, dental and vision for you and your family, plus life and disability cover. We have chosen the highest plan tier available to us rather than the cheapest one that clears the bar, because the point of this is that you never have to think about it. The specific plan numbers are confirmed in your offer letter.

401(k) with company matching:

A 401(k) with a company match, so the years you spend here compound into something that is yours whatever happens next. The match formula is confirmed in your offer letter.

AI tokens:

A budget of AI tokens of your own, because a company that says you should own your AI cannot be the company that rations it. Use them on the work and on whatever you are curious about.

Gym, and the everyday things:

A gym membership, and a corporate benefits programme with its own app, where you redeem real discounts with a long list of retailers on the ordinary purchases of a life.

Family:

We are remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time, and we would rather you took it than toughed it out.

Referrals:

Refer someone we hire full-time who stays a year and you get $1,000 plus $10,000 in referral stock-based equity, on top of your own package.