Server Postsilicon Project Engineer
Verification, Validation & Test
$233,000 - $349,600 USD yearly
Originally posted 17 August 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on post-silicon activities for complex server products.
About the role
This role involves driving post-silicon activities for complex server products, developing an understanding of product architecture, design, validation goals, and performance, power, and thermal (PPT) optimization targets. It is focused on server-class, high-performance solutions optimized for data-center products.
What you'll do
- Develop an understanding of product architecture, design, operating principles, and performance, power, and thermal (PnP) targets to guide post-silicon validation, debug, optimization, and issue resolution.
- Provide technical oversight and guidance for the development of silicon validation plans, addressing product architecture, design intent, functional requirements, PnP targets, and coverage for critical post-silicon risks.
- Work with partner teams to define day-0 and week-by-week execution plans for critical post-silicon milestones, including bring-up, sampling, performance optimization, and production readiness.
- Drive post-silicon execution, issue triage, and cross-functional problem resolution in partnership with IP and SoC validation teams, software teams, PnP teams, product test teams (ATE and SLT) and Customer Engineering.
- Coordinate prioritization, tracking, and closure of silicon issues, ensuring technical risks, dependencies, and blockers are communicated and resolved in a timely manner.
- Communicate technical status, progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and required actions both upward to leadership and stakeholders and downward to execution teams.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience OR PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
- Demonstrated ability to drive execution across matrixed teams and communicate technical status, risks, dependencies, and corrective actions clearly.
- Ability to correlate data from characterization, product testing, and sensitivity analysis to formulate theories for observed behaviors and failures; drive actionable plans to complete triage while simultaneously evaluating workarounds and potential fixes.
- Ability to leverage the experience and expertise of specialists across the domains involved in silicon commercialization; make difficult trade-offs among time to market, production readiness, and performance targets; and present executives with concise options and recommendations.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with senior engineers, technologists, and cross-functional leaders.
Nice to have
- 10 years of experience in silicon, systems, hardware, or server product development or commercialization.
- 5 years in a technical leadership role.
- Experience in a post-silicon technical execution role driving one or more data-center projects from initial power-on through product commercialization.
- Experience driving the commercialization of two or more CPU server products, from initial power-on through production release.
- Architecture, design, or validation experience in critical functional domains such as CPU, Fabric, PCIe, CXL, or memory systems.
- Experience optimizing products toward power, performance, and thermal targets.
- Experience with silicon bring-up, validation, debug, characterization, issue triage, and production readiness reviews.
- Experience working with product test organizations, including ATE and SLT.
- Proven track record driving execution in hyperscale or data-center server products.
Market context
This role has been open 59 days — below the 65-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
120
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Median days open
65 d
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Median salary
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (120 roles · 30 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 19 | 120 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 130 | 2226 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 38 d | 65 d (−27 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 19 open roles · median 38 d
- AMD · 16 open roles · median 54 d
- NVIDIA · 16 open roles · median 71 d
- Graphcore · 10 open roles · median 122 d
- Amazon · 6 open roles · median 41 d
- Micron Technology · 5 open roles · median 212 d
How we counted: 120 open Post-Silicon Validation (Design Verification) roles from 30 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.