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Develop and own low-level validation firmware in C/C++ that runs across emulation and physical silicon, providing test content pre-silicon and reusing it to drive post-silicon bring-up. * Drive early ...

Develop and own low-level validation firmware in C/C++ that runs across emulation and physical silicon, providing test content pre-silicon and reusing it to drive post-silicon bring-up. * Drive early ...

Partner with RTL, DFT, ATE, firmware, and system architecture teams to ensure smooth transition from pre-silicon verification to post-silicon validation. * Provide critical feedback on test escapes ...

Partner with RTL, DFT, ATE, firmware, and system architecture teams to ensure smooth transition from pre-silicon verification to post-silicon validation. * Provide critical feedback on test escapes ...

The Role and Impact As a CPU Pre-Silicon Verification Engineer , you will help ensure the quality ... The team is responsible for validating complex CPU microarchitectures, developing advanced ...

CPU Pre-Silicon Verification Engineer

Folsom, CA · On-site

$145K/yr

The Role and Impact As a CPU Pre-Silicon Verification Engineer , you will help ensure the quality ... The team is responsible for validating complex CPU microarchitectures, developing advanced ...

Validate boot, reset, initialization, power management, recovery, memory, interconnect, high-speed ... Bonus Points If You Have * Experience with both pre-silicon and post-silicon validation.

... pre-silicon (FPGAs) and post-silicon (development boards) • Debug functional silicon failures ... levels, memory management, and virtual machines Good understanding of the logic design and ...

... pre-silicon (FPGAs) and post-silicon (development boards) • Debug functional silicon failures ... levels, memory management, and virtual machines Good understanding of the logic design and ...

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Pre and Post Silicon Validation Engineer

San Diego, CA • On-site

Contractor

Re-posted 23 days ago


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Company Description

Insilico is an End-to-End specialized VLSI, Embedded Design & Software services and solutions company. It operates in the "Compute" & "Connectivity" space.
Insilico is founded by industry veterans, who are strong leaders and practitioners with diverse experience in all the relevant aspects of technology and execution. The management and its entire team, handpicked from among the best talents in the industry, can adapt to the evolving technologies and growing market challenges internationally. Insilico has very flexible business models to suit a plethora of client needs.
With a current clientele of top semiconductor companies, Insilico has a wide and diversified spectrum of service offerings in expansive domains within the ambit of Embedded Design & Software, and in almost all areas of VLSI design, from Spec-to-Silicon, on a wide range of ASICs & CPUs/GPUs in all the latest technologies, including 7nm.
Being an integral part of a larger business eco-system, Insilico has the foundation of strong financials, validated processes, robust infrastructure and a global network of reputable clientele.
Insilico's service portfolio caters to products that empower the world of Communication, Networking, CPU/Servers, Automobile, Bio-Medicals, Consumer Electronics and a wide range of IOTs.
Headquartered in the US, it has operations in India & APAC.
 

Job Description

Job Role: Pre and Post Silicon Validation Engineer

Location: San Diego, CA

Duration: 24 Months

Pre and Post Silicon Validation Team is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall quality of the SoC silicon. The Validation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers. The team is currently seeking candidates who are familiar with pre-silicon test development and post-silicon bring-up and validation. 

Qualifications

Candidate will have a minimum of 3 years of SW/FW experience working in emulation and silicon environments.

Candidates are expected to have experience in:

- Low Level software development in C and Assembly.

- Debugging low level software and hardware issues.

- Implementing drivers and test content.

- Debug tools including JTAG, Logic Analyzer, Oscilloscope, etc., and kernel debuggers.

- Emulation environments for development and debug.

- Basic understanding of power and performance.

- Knowledge of SOC architecture and in-depth knowledge of at least one sub system (CPU, Power Management, Security IPs, System Performance, Clocks, DDR, etc.)

- Good communication skills and ability & desire to work in a cross-functional team environment.

Additional Information

Experience with post-silicon enabling and bring-up. Understanding of coherency and concurrency in modern SoC architectures.

Experience with at least one of: Perl, Python, TCL, C++, or Java. Industry experience preferred but not required. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.