Silicon Validation Engineer — Hybrid, Equity & Benefits

MatX Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks PTO (accrued)

12 company holidays

Up to 3 weeks remote work

Health insurance

Job summary

MatX Inc. is building a high-performance silicon platform for GenAI workloads.

We seek engineers to own silicon bring-up and validation from first power-on through production release, developing test plans for chip-level functionality, performance, and reliability. You will validate boot, power management, memory, and high-speed interfaces while collaborating with architecture, DV, emulation, firmware, and product teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on silicon validation and post-silicon bring-up experience required.
• Experience validating complex SoCs or highly integrated silicon products.
• Strong understanding of digital hardware and SoC architecture.
• Ability to debug cross-functional failures to root cause.
• Experience with lab platforms and real silicon.
• Familiarity with firmware, embedded software, and drivers.

Responsibilities

• Own silicon bring-up and validation from first power-on to production readiness.
• Develop and execute chip-level validation plans for functionality, performance, and reliability.
• Validate boot, reset, initialization, power management, memory, and high-speed interfaces.
• Collaborate across DV, emulation, firmware, software, and product teams to improve coverage.
• Debug failures using logs, registers, traces, and lab equipment.
• Define observability, debug requirements, and improve validation automation.

Skills

Silicon validation

Hardware emulation

Top-level DV

Debug complex failures

Scripting (Python)

C/C++ debugging

Reading specifications

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CS

Tools

Cadence Palladium

SystemVerilog/UVM

Oscilloscopes/Logic analyzers

Waveform debugging tools

Job description

MatX Inc. is building a high-performance silicon platform for GenAI workloads.

We seek engineers to own silicon bring-up and validation from first power-on through production release, developing test plans for chip-level functionality, performance, and reliability. You will validate boot, power management, memory, and high-speed interfaces while collaborating with architecture, DV, emulation, firmware, and product teams.