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Description
As a Silicon Validation Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end validation activities post-silicon tape-out, encompassing various aspects such as SoC functional blocks, interconnects, memory subsystems, power domains, and coherency across compute subsystems. Your role will involve collaborating closely with design, architecture, and software teams to define validation plans, execute test content, perform system bring-up, and identify root causes of failures. To excel in this role, you should possess solid hands-on work experience in Baremetal, uboot, Linux, C/C++ programming. You will be tasked with defining high-level requirements, planning validation activities, and implementing software components for fully validating a SoC design in both pre-silicon (emulation, FPGA prototyping, etc.) and post-silicon validation automated environments. A deep understanding of SoC architecture, CPU subsystems, MMU, caches, memory controllers, and interconnect protocols such as AXI/CHI is essential for this position. Additionally, experience in bare-metal and OS-level validation flows, along with proficiency in using silicon debug tools like JTAG, Logic Analyzers, and Trace analyzers (ETM, STM), DFT infrastructure, is required. Your role will also involve developing strong scripting skills in Python, Perl, C test content development, and validation automation frameworks. Experience in working with subsystems like Graphics, DDR/HBM memories, PCIe/CXL, USB 3.1, Audio (I3C, DMIC, Soundwire*), Vision (MIPI, image pre-proc), security and crypto blocks (AES, etc.), Video, and High-speed Ethernet/networking will be advantageous. You will be expected to assist in managing the first/second level debug of failing tests and collaborate with design owners to resolve any issues that arise. Furthermore, you will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing the validation infrastructure by creating new tools to support validation processes. Experience with KPI benchmarks such as Dhrystone, CoreMark, and SPEC, as well as an understanding of power and thermal profiling at both block and SoC levels, will be beneficial in this role. If you are looking to leverage your expertise in silicon validation and contribute to the success of cutting-edge technologies, this position offers a challenging yet rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact.,
