Sr. Staff Engineer, PCIe Validation - Austin, Texas, United States
Originally posted 1 May 2025 by the employer — open 497 days.
Validating PCIe interfaces from controller to PHY.
About the role
This role involves validating high-speed interfaces and solving complex system-level puzzles. The focus is on validating next-gen PCIe interfaces from controller to PHY.
What you'll do
- Validate next-gen PCIe interfaces, from controller to PHY.
- Collaborate across hardware, firmware, and software teams.
- Bring up new features and solve problems across teams.
- Debug issues across hardware, firmware, and software layers.
What you'll need
- Experience bringing hardware to life.
- Ability to solve problems across the hardware–firmware boundary.
- Proficiency with oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and JTAG.
- Capability to debug and triage issues in hardware, firmware, and software.
Skills: PCIe, high-speed interfaces, firmware, hardware validation, oscilloscopes
This role has been open 180 days — well above the 91-day median for High-Speed IO/SerDes Design roles.
High-Speed IO/SerDes Design · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
217
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Median days open
91 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | Tenstorrent | All employers we track in this specialty (217 roles · 44 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in category | 4 | 217 |
| Median days open | 180 d | 91 d (+89 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: PCIe, high-speed interfaces, firmware, hardware validation, oscilloscopes
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 24 open roles · median 61 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 19 open roles · median 153 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 74 d
- Synopsys · 16 open roles · median 53 d
- Broadcom · 11 open roles · median 142 d
- NVIDIA · 10 open roles · median 95 d
How we counted: 217 open High-Speed IO/SerDes Design (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 44 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Sept 2026. Figures refresh nightly.