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Silicon Validation Engineer

MatX · Mountain View (HQ) or Remote · Remote

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About MatX

We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.

About the role

Own silicon bring-up and validation from first power-on through feature validation and production readiness. Develop and execute validation plans for chip-level and SiP-level functionality, performance, reliability, and system behavior.

What they're looking for

  • Strong hands-on experience in silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, hardware emulation, Top-level DV, or a related field
  • Experience validating complex SoCs, accelerators, or highly integrated silicon products
  • Strong understanding of digital hardware, SoC architecture, and hardware-firmware interaction
  • Proven ability to debug complex cross-functional failures and drive them to root cause
  • Experience working with real silicon and lab platforms
  • Familiarity with firmware, embedded software, drivers, and low-level hardware access
More about this role

MatX is on a mission to be the compute platform for AGI. We are developing vertically integrated full-stack solutions from silicon to systems including hardware and software to train and run the largest ML workloads for AGI. MatX is seeking silicon micro-architects and design engineers to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. Successful candidates for these roles will be responsible for delivering performant and functionally accurate silicon for MatX products across compute, memory management. High-speed connectivity and other key technologies.

Own silicon bring-up and validation from first power-on through feature validation and production readiness.

Develop and execute validation plans for chip-level and SiP-level functionality, performance, reliability, and system behavior.

Validate boot, reset, initialization, power management, recovery, memory, interconnect, high-speed interfaces, and package-level functionality.

Work across Top-level DV, Palladium emulation, lab validation, and package validation to improve coverage and correlation between environments.

Debug complex failures using logs, registers, traces, waveforms,...

Read the full posting on MatX's site ↗

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