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# Technical Lead Engineer - Power Validation & Characterization

- **Company:** The Meta Game, Inc.
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $212,000.0 - $294,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Computer Engineering, Data Centers, Software Debugging, Network Interface Controllers, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Design of User Interfaces, Hardware Design, Python (Programming Language), Operational Databases, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Information Technology, Bare Metal, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/694C5A2EA01B471ABADDB04A4BF9C565/job/

## About the Role

12. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
 13. 12+ years of relevant industry experience
 14. Demonstrated hands-on validation and characterization experience on complex ASICs, SoCs, NICs, or high-speed interfaces
 15. Proven experience with PVT (Process / Voltage / Temperature) characterization
 16. Ability to read and reason about schematics and either power delivery networks or high-speed interface implementations
 17. Proficiency in Python for test development, lab automation, and/or data analysis
 18. Hands-on lab experience with domain-relevant instrumentation, 19. Experience building large-scale lab automation frameworks and data pipelines for characterization data
 20. Familiarity with on-die telemetry, ring-oscillator data, eFuse-based binning, and adaptive voltage scaling
 21. Experience developing hardware for data center deployment
 22. Experience taking a custom ASIC from first silicon through high-volume production
 23. Experience with custom silicon programs
 24. Hands-on lab experience with domain-relevant instrumentation for Power - SMUs, electronic loads, power analyzers, scopes, current probes, thermal chambers / forced-air and liquid-cooled setups
 25. plus experience with multi-kW systems
 26. Experience with liquid-cooled and high-TDP (2kW+) accelerator or networking platforms
 27. Experience working directly with ODMs, test houses, and silicon vendors
 28. Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
 29. Experience across both pre-silicon (emulation/FPGA) and post-silicon validation

## Description

Meta's Infrastructure team delivers scalable and reliable custom ASIC solutions to meet Meta's data center needs. Ramping to production and solving data center scaling and deployment challenges requires a systems-based approach to silicon bring-up and validation.The team works on productization: early architecture and design inputs, pre-silicon validation on emulation platforms, first-silicon bring-up, and post-silicon characterization across process, voltage, and temperature corners. We write tests, build bare-metal environments and reusable frameworks that scale from pre-silicon platforms to large fleets of ASICs in the lab, and we build and maintain extensive lab automation to do it at volume and velocity., 1. Own the end-to-end validation and characterization strategy for Meta custom silicon programs in your domain, from pre-silicon emulation through post-silicon bring-up and PVT characterization

 2. Define the test plan: measurement and benchmarking methodology, instrumentation, functional and performance coverage, corner coverage across process/voltage/temperature, and pass/fail criteria
 3. Establish and document best practices for measurement rigor, accuracy, and correlation across bench, emulation, and ATE/production data
 4. Drive validation of domain feature sets (power or networking) on emulation platforms pre-silicon and on real silicon post-silicon
 5. Review schematics, power delivery networks, high-speed interface designs, and board/platform configurations with hardware and design teams
 6. provide early design and debuggability inputs
 7. Write and review automation and analysis code that scales characterization from a single bench to many units in the lab
 8. Lead debug of complex cross-stack issues - silicon, firmware, driver, board, thermal, and fabric/switch layers - and drive root cause to closure with design, software, hardware, ODM, and vendor partners
 9. Provide technical guidance and planning for a team of validation engineers
 10. mentor engineers and improve standards for data quality and rigor
 11. Partner with manufacturing, production, and data center teams to transfer characterization learnings into production screens and fleet health monitoring


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