Silicon Validation

Job Title: Contract Post-Validation Engineer Location: Austin, TX / Cupertino, CA Duration: 12 Months Location: Austin, TX (Primary Location). However, if you have strong candidates based in Cupertino, CA, please feel free to submit them as well. Experience: 5 Years Seeking- Post-Validation Engineer with experince in knowledge of the full validation lifecycle from RTL simulation (SystemVerilog/UVM, VCS, Questa, Xcelium) and emulation (Palladium, Zebu, Veloce) through silicon failure analysis and debug. What You'll Be Doing: • As a Senior Validation Engineer on our Machine Learning Acceleration team to work —from early design validation through emulation, silicon bring-up, post-silicon validation, and ongoing support of production systems deployed in AWS data centers. • You'll collaborate deeply with architecture, RTL design, design verification, firmware, and software teams to ensure our next-generation AI/ML accelerators meet the highest standards of quality and performance. • This role requires bridging multiple domains and broad scope of impact—from low-level hardware interfaces to high-level ML workloads—to deliver exceptional results. A day in the life: • Developing comprehensive validation strategies and leads new methodologies to improve validation coverage and time to root cause. • Role models detailed test plans covering functional, performance, power, and stress testing from silicon bring-up to product release • Mentors and provides direction to junior validation engineers • Executes complex test plans from RTL simulation and emulation environments through physical silicon validation • Handing complex debug including hands-on silicon bring-up and debug in the lab using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers • Validating ML accelerator performance, accuracy, and reliability using real-world neural network workloads • Building test infrastructure, CI/CD, and automated regression frameworks to enable efficient validation at scale • Collaborating across architecture, design, firmware, and software teams to triage failures and drive root cause analysis to closure • Reviewing test results, identifying patterns, and providing feedback to improve design quality and validation coverage • Delivering new tests to production systems in AWS data centers and manufacturing to improve fleet health What We Are Looking For: • Strong programming skills (Python, Lua, C/C , Rust, Go, etc) • A solid understanding of computer architecture and chip/system validation methodologies • Experience with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD • Firmware testing and/or development (BIOS, BClient, drivers) • Domain expertise in any of these areas: PCIe, HBM, GPUs, neural networks, ML HW architecture. • 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience • Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or Bachelor's degree • 5 years of non-internship system test development, code reviews, source control management, build processes, automated deployments, and operations experience. • Experience with Linux environments and Git. • Experience with server hardware and debug tools • Experience with Machine Learning Hardware/Software Architecture • Experience with CI/CD • Experience with EDA Simulations or Emulation