Embedded Systems Validation/Test Engineer

Delan Associates, Inc • Mountain View, CA

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About The Position

We are seeking an Embedded Systems Validation/Test Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing C and C++ based test content, low-level drivers, and custom firmware at the subsystem and SoC levels. You will also serve as a technical owner for the team's FPGA prototyping platforms, design custom FPGA RTL, and develop custom Python tooling. A key part of this role involves driving post-silicon bring-up and validation in the lab, debugging issues, and root-causing failing tests to closure. You will collaborate with design, firmware, hardware, and security teams to resolve low-level issues and ensure successful product launches.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related degree required
• 5-7 years of relevant experience required.
• Experience developing C and C++ test content for subsystem and SoC verification, including bare-metal and firmware-style tests, with working knowledge of SystemVerilog testbenches.
• Experience bringing up and maintaining FPGA prototyping or emulation platforms (such as HAPS or Xilinx), including board images, platform tooling, and testbench changes that enable firmware and validation teams.
• Hands-on hardware debug experience with tools such as JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters.
• Experience with post-silicon bring-up and validation, including running test suites on silicon and debugging boot, platform, and connectivity issues in a lab environment.
• Proficiency in Python, or a similar scripting language such as Perl or Ruby, for test automation, build flows, and log or data parsing.
• In-depth knowledge of verification principles, testbench architecture, and stimulus generation, with a track record of debugging complex designs.
• Experience with low-level and embedded software, including assembly, startup code, linker scripts, and Makefile-based build flows.
• Familiarity with industry protocols such as AMBA (AXI/AHB/APB), JTAG, SPI, I2C/I3C, and USB.
• Experience collaborating across architecture, design, firmware, and validation teams, with strong communication skills.
• Strong understanding of silicon and/or computer architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop C and C++ based test content, low-level drivers, and custom firmware at the subsystem and SoC levels, including self-checking tests that run on embedded processors.
• Extend the compile and build flow to support custom firmware-style tests.
• Serve as a technical owner for the team's FPGA prototyping platforms (such as HAPS or Xilinx): create board images and bit files.
• Design additional custom FPGA RTL for protocol interfaces and feature enablement.
• Release stable platforms to the firmware team and keep them working as the design evolves.
• Develop and extend custom python tooling to interface with the FPGA platform.
• Debug FPGA and post-silicon issues using tools such as JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters.
• Drive post-silicon bring-up and validation in the lab: run the validation suites on first silicon, meet bring-up exit criteria on schedule, and debug platform issues such as JTAG failures, UART connectivity, and boot failures alongside the design, firmware, hardware, and security teams.
• Root-cause failing post-silicon tests to closure, collecting and analyzing scan dumps for low-level issues such as boot ROM and built-in self-test bugs, coordinating cross-team debug, and delivering fixes such as handling fatal errors, correcting driver access violations, and reconciling registers modified by boot firmware.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior