THE PERSON:
You are a highly motivated hands-on executor with a development background, problem solving ability, and communication skills. Ability to prioritize tasks along with willingness to learn and adapt. Excellent teamwork skills and capability to support a technical team is crucial. Able to work across geographies and team boundaries to get results.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Participate in systems design development throughout entire product lifecycle, from pre-silicon and emulation through post-silicon and software integration.
- Support technical presentations demonstrating a good understanding of hardware architecture and expertise in systems design.
- Collaborate with Design, Software, Tools and other teams to drive the definition of testing and debug methodologies to provide the best possible coverage and customer experience for the IP.
- Isolation and debug of issues found during pre-silicon, bring-up, validation, and production phases of S3 products.
- Able to proactively support team culture that fosters knowledge sharing, excellence, and collaboration.
- Executing validation strategies, enablement of features and unit test plans
- Publishing and aligning test plan requirements and dependencies
- Working closely with supporting teams such as design, diagnostics, driver, and project leadership.
- Support cross-functional technical discussions to drive root cause identification and resolution on technical issues.
- Participating in technical innovations to enhance validation capabilities including tool and script developments, technical and methodology enhancements.
REQUIREMENTS:
- In-depth knowledge of SOC architecture and concepts.
- Experience with IP/System level bring-up.
- Experience in Video Codec including encoding and decoding.
- Knowledge of Virtualization.
- Experience with FPGA and other hardware emulation platforms for pre-silicon debug.
- Strong understanding of BIOS, OS, and driver-level interactions and common failure points.
- Good understanding of Boot Flows/Sequences.
- Experience with common lab equipment, computer hardware, and networks.
- Led process improvement initiatives to improve engineering quality.
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.
- Knowledge of standard power management features and use-cases.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum 5-6 years of experience in pre and post-silicon validation.
- Demonstrated ability to grasp new technical concepts quickly.
- Strong programming/scripting skills (e.g. Python, C/C++, Ruby).
- Experience with IP/System level bring-up, SOC debug techniques and methodologies.
- Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to details.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-starter, strong collaborator, and able to independently drive tasks to completion.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple issues at the same time.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field strongly preferred.