Sr Silicon Bring-Up and Integration Engineer

Blue Origin • Cupertino, CA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Application close date: Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed. At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! Blue Origin is pioneering the future of space-based communications with TeraWave, a revolutionary satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. This multi-orbit constellation will consist of optically interconnected satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO), providing enterprise-grade connectivity for critical operations worldwide. As a Sr Silicon Bring-Up and Integration Engineer, you will be a key hands-on member of the team responsible for bringing complex custom SoCs and ASICs from pre-silicon development through physical silicon bring-up, validation, and system integration. You will develop low-level C/C++ software, diagnostics, and Python-based test infrastructure used to configure, control, exercise, and validate custom silicon. You will work closely with ASIC design, verification, firmware, board, RF/DSP, and system engineering teams to support first-silicon bring-up, characterize device behavior, and debug complex hardware/software integration issues. This role is highly technical and hands-on and requires the ability to work across silicon hardware, low-level software, lab instrumentation, and system-level debugging.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC bring-up, post-silicon validation, embedded systems, silicon integration, or closely related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience with ASIC or SoC bring-up, post-silicon validation, or low-level hardware/software integration.
• Strong C/C++ programming experience for low-level hardware control, embedded software, firmware, or silicon diagnostics.
• Strong Python or equivalent scripting experience for test automation, instrumentation, and data analysis.
• Strong understanding of SoC architecture, memory-mapped registers, interrupts, DMA, clock/reset architecture, memory systems, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Experience with low-level interfaces and debug protocols such as JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, or DDR/LPDDR.
• Hands-on experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum/signal analyzers, power supplies, and other silicon bring-up and validation equipment.
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex problems spanning hardware, firmware/software, and system boundaries.
• Ability to read schematics, silicon specifications, register maps, timing diagrams, and hardware design documentation.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with first-silicon bring-up of complex custom ASICs or SoCs.
• Experience developing post-silicon validation frameworks, diagnostics, and automated regression environments.
• Experience debugging high-speed SerDes, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, or custom chip-to-chip interfaces.
• Experience with mixed-signal SoCs containing ADCs, DACs, PLLs, clocking, RF, or other analog/mixed-signal subsystems.
• Understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, clocking, reset sequencing, and board-level effects on silicon operation.
• Familiarity with Linux device drivers, embedded RTOS environments, boot flows, and low-level firmware.
• Experience with silicon characterization across voltage, temperature, frequency, and process corners.
• Experience supporting root-cause analysis and validating RTL, firmware, software, or silicon fixes.

Responsibilities

• Perform first-silicon power-on, initialization, configuration, functional bring-up, and debugging of custom SoCs and ASICs.
• Develop C/C++ software, firmware, diagnostics, and Python-based test infrastructure used to configure, control, exercise, and validate custom silicon.
• Develop bring-up software, test sequences, register-access utilities, diagnostics, and validation capabilities prior to silicon availability using simulation, emulation, FPGA prototypes, or other available pre-silicon platforms.
• Integrate and debug low-level software and firmware with silicon hardware, including initialization sequences, clocks and resets, memory interfaces, peripherals, data paths, and high-speed interfaces.
• Develop and execute functional, performance, stress, and corner-condition tests to validate silicon behavior against design and system requirements.
• Support characterization across voltage, temperature, frequency, operating modes, and silicon process variation.
• Investigate and root-cause failures spanning silicon hardware, RTL, firmware/software, boards, clocks, power, interfaces, and system-level behavior.
• Develop automated test infrastructure for DUT configuration, lab instrumentation, data collection, regression testing, and analysis.
• Bring up and debug low-speed and high-speed interfaces such as JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, DDR/LPDDR, and custom chip-to-chip interfaces as applicable.
• Define requirements for evaluation boards, fixtures, sockets, instrumentation, and debug capabilities required for silicon bring-up and validation, and work closely with board-design teams on their implementation.
• Collaborate closely with ASIC architecture/design, verification, firmware/software, RF/DSP, board, system, manufacturing, and test teams to resolve silicon integration issues.
• Support issues from initial engineering samples through characterization, validation, and production readiness, including verification of hardware and software fixes across silicon revisions.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

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