CPU Post-Silicon Validation Engineer - Multiple Levels - San Diego, California, United States of America

Originally posted 6 March 2026 by the employer.

About the role

As a CPU Silicon Bring up and Validation Engineer on the CPU Silicon Bringup Team, you will prepare for and support bring up of SoCs using custom CPUs from first silicon through to productization.

What you'll do

- Work with CPU design and verification teams to develop CPU bring up and validation test plans. - Prepare for CPU bring up through pre-work on emulation and FPGA platforms. - Collaborate with SOC bring up teams and software teams to plan CPU bring up. - Triage and debug failures on silicon, and reproduce silicon fails on emulators and FPGAs. - Develop test contents and testing strategies to assist validation of CPU features on silicon. - Work with the design team to architect new debug features to improve future CPU bring ups.

What you'll need

- BA/BS degree in CS/EE with 5 years of experience. - 3 years of experience in silicon validation and bring up. - Experience with implementation of assembly, C/C++ language embedded firmware. - Experience with software tool chains including assemblers, C compilers, Makefiles, and source code control tools.

Nice to have

- Strong understanding of micro-processor architecture. - Strong understanding of power management and physical design concepts. - Experience in silicon bring up and validation of CPU features, including test development on silicon. - Experience in debug of functional, power, performance, physical design issues, and speed path debug on silicon. - Experience in CPU design and verification. - Experience in development of test vectors for tester bring up.

Skills: CPU Post-Silicon Validation, CPU bring up, silicon debug, embedded firmware, power management, physical design