ASIC Validation Engineer, Power Validation & Characterization

Meta•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•$114,000 - $172,000

About The Position

Meta's Infra Silicon is to deliver scalable and reliable custom ASIC solutions to meet Meta data center needs. Ramping to production and solving data center scaling and deployment challenges requires a systems-based approach to silicon bring-up and validation. The team works on all aspects of silicon productization: early architecture and design inputs, pre-silicon validation on emulation platforms, first-silicon bring-up, and post-silicon characterization across process, voltage, and temperature corners. We write tests, build bare-metal environments and reusable frameworks that scale from pre-silicon platforms to large fleets of ASICs in the lab, and we build and maintain extensive lab automation to 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 relevant industry experience in ASIC validation, hardware bring-up, or a related silicon engineering discipline
Hands-on lab experience with hardware bring-up, debug, and measurement
Experience with test and measurement instrumentation in a lab environment
Ability to read schematics and platform documentation
Proficiency in Python for test development and automation
Experience with pre-silicon (emulation/FPGA) or post-silicon validation

Nice To Haves

Domain depth with multi-kW systems or rack-level power
Familiarity with firmware/BMC interfaces and telemetry collection
Exposure to PVT (Process / Voltage / Temperature) characterization
MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
Experience with custom silicon or data center hardware
Experience with both pre- and post-silicon validation

Responsibilities

Execute validation and PVT characterization test plans on emulation platforms and on silicon in the lab
Bring up boards and systems and set up test environments and instrumentation
Validate your domain's feature sets and report results against expected behavior
Run and interpret domain measurements
Write and maintain Python test scripts, automation, and analysis tooling; contribute to the team's shared validation framework
Triage and debug failures hands-on — narrow down whether an issue is silicon, firmware, driver, board, or test setup — and document findings clearly
Use schematics and platform documentation to probe the right signals or nets and interpret results correctly
Produce clean, reproducible characterization data and summaries for design, firmware, and manufacturing partners
Support lab infrastructure: bench, rack, and power setup; instrument calibration; switch and traffic-generator configuration; and keeping test environments running