Senior Staff ASIC Platform Engineer
About The Position
The ASIC Design Enablement and Automation Engineering organization is seeking a self-driven, hands-on engineer to lead enablement, automation, and infrastructure development for large-scale pre-silicon emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms used in product development. This role supports the Emerging Technology Solutions group by enabling pre-silicon development through reliable farm infrastructure, automation, and cross-functional platform leadership for emerging technologies solutions group. The ideal candidate brings broad system-level knowledge, with depth in one or more areas such as emulation, FPGA prototyping, automation, firmware enablement, or platform debug.
Requirements
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field
- 8+ years of experience in pre-silicon development, emulation, FPGA prototyping, ASIC validation, firmware development, or related platform engineering
Nice To Haves
- Expertise with pre-silicon ASIC or FW development
- Expertise with Cadence, Siemens and/or Synopsys emulation platforms or FPGA-based prototyping environments
- Ability to debug complex system-level issues across hardware, software, and platform infrastructure
- Familiarity with host interfaces such as PCIe, UFS, USB, and SD
- Familiarity with peripheral interfaces such as UART, JTAG, I2C, HSSTP, and related protocols.
- Experience working in Linux and Windows environments
- Expertise in Tcl
- Experience supporting pre-silicon development in cross-functional teams and optimizing hardware usage at scale
- Understanding of firmware development process and how that intersects with ASIC development and FPGA design
Responsibilities
- Support Product Firmware, Firmware Validation, Security FW, and ASIC validation/verification throughout development cycle
- Develop scripts, tools, and automation to improve platform deployment, debug, monitoring and user workflows
- Debug complex platform issues across hardware, firmware, software, infrastructure and user environments
- Understand user workflows and platform use cases and then scale solutions across farm-based deployments
- Document, explain & share creative solutions to difficult technical problems
Benefits
- paid vacation time
- paid sick leave
- medical/dental/vision insurance
- life, accident and disability insurance
- tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
- employee assistance program
- other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
- tuition reimbursement
- transit
- the Applause Program
- employee stock purchase plan
- Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
- Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
- Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program (restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
