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# Silicon Validation Engineer, Google Cloud

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $138,000.0 - $197,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Embedded Software, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Scripting, Google Cloud, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Information Technology, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9e59b1fabfad0cae

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
 * 3 years of experience with silicon design or with semiconductors (e.g., digital design, silicon validation, computer architecture).
 * Experience scripting in a programming language like Python or equivalent., * Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
 * Experience developing firmware, embedded software, or functional tests for silicon validation.
 * Experience in silicon validation bringing up, characterizing, and qualifying silicon.
 * Experience with high speed interfaces, ASIC interfaces, memory systems (HBM), aor power system features and high-power ASICs.

## Description

* Own the bringup and New Product Introduction (NPI) phases of the silicon development lifecycle. Enable custom silicon products within the platform infrastructure systems.
 * Integrate and validate complex hardware/software designs in pre-silicon through functional bringup. Develop the integration plan, coordinate hardware and software delivery, and create necessary tests for validation.
 * Develop detailed test plans, based on design specifications and coordinate with a cross-functional teams (e.g., architecture, design, software, firmware).
 * Perform long-term system characterization. Debug and help root-cause failures, providing feedback to improve features like power management quality, performance, and reliability through generations of designs, including in pre-silicon prototyping platforms as well as through post-silicon bringup and production.
 * Design, develop, operate, and maintain software based validation tests.


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