Silicon Validation Engineer – Embedded HW & Testing

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC Mountain View, CA is seeking a firmware engineer to translate hardware specs into test suites and run them across pre-silicon emulation and post-silicon hardware goals. You will architect and write validation pipelines in C for baremetal environments to probe the hardware directly.

The role requires collaborating with Architecture, RTL Design, and software teams to trace and conquer hardware-software boundary issues, while developing scripts to speed data collection and testing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience in computer architecture, memory management, and low-level hardware components.
• Experience programming in C for low-level, embedded, microcontroller, or baremetal applications.
• Experience writing code to interface directly with hardware (e.g., handling interrupts, reading/writing registers, or manipulating peripherals).
• Experience in scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) for script automation or analytical data collection.

Responsibilities

• Translate hardware specifications into test suites, executing them thoroughly across both pre-silicon emulation and post-silicon hardware goals. Execute pipelines, debug failures, and collect data with guided supervision.
• Architect and write custom validation pipelines primarily in C, executed natively inside baremetal environments to probe the hardware directly.
• Deep-dive into the micro-architecture of real-time and non-real-time hardware accelerators, validating their functionality, performance throughput, and power footprints.
• Partner directly with Architecture, RTL Design, and downstream Software teams to trace, reproduce, and conquer hardware-software boundary bugs.
• Develop analytical scripts and validation frameworks to speed up the testing pipeline and ensure robust data collection.

Skills

C programming

Low-level hardware

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Interrupt handling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Tools

Git

JTAG

TRACE32

Job description

Google LLC Mountain View, CA is seeking a firmware engineer to translate hardware specs into test suites and run them across pre-silicon emulation and post-silicon hardware goals. You will architect and write validation pipelines in C for baremetal environments to probe the hardware directly.

The role requires collaborating with Architecture, RTL Design, and software teams to trace and conquer hardware-software boundary issues, while developing scripts to speed data collection and testing