Senior Silicon Validation Engineer, Google Cloud

Google

Sunnyvale, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Benchmarking, Cloud Computing, Computer Architecture, Computer Engineering, Computer Firmware, Computer Science, Cross-Functional, Debugging Skills, Design Verification, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Software, Emulators, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), FPGA, Functional Testing, Graphic Design, Hardware Design, Hardware-Software Integration, Memory Hardware, Network Operations Center, Operations Research, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Power Management, Product Lifecycle, Product/Service Launch, Prototyping, Requirements Management, Root Cause Analysis, Silicon Bringup, Simulation, Software Administration, Software Architecture Design, Software Design, Software Development, Software Engineering, Software Testing, Software Validation, Sustainability, Test Case, Test Plan/Schedule, Testing, Validation Testing, Vehicle Fleets
LOCATION
Sunnyvale, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in silicon validation, bringing up, characterizing, and qualifying silicon.
  • 5 years of experience developing firmware, embedded software, or functional tests for silicon validation.
  • Experience with ASIC interfaces, memory systems (high-bandwidth memory), or power management system features and ASICs.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.

About the job

In this role, you’ll work to shape the future of AI/ML hardware acceleration. You will have an opportunity to drive cutting-edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) technology that powers Google's most demanding AI/ML applications. You’ll be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's TPU. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide, and leverage your design and verification expertise to verify complex digital designs, with a specific focus on TPU architecture and its integration within AI/ML-driven systems.

The Chip Innovation and Infrastructure (CI2) Platform Enablement team drives Google’s custom ASICs from concept to production. We manage the end-to-end silicon life-cycle, including development, bringup, qualification, and long-term quality sustainability. We plan and integrate complex hardware and software stacks on emulation, simulation, and Field-programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platforms. Our team leads ASIC modeling, prototyping, and hardware/software co-design to ensure robust pre-silicon validation. We develop custom software-based test cases, workloads, test generators, and advanced debugging infrastructure.In the post-silicon phase, we own the silicon validation effort, focusing on bringup, characterization, and performance benchmarking. We ensure our custom ASIC systems are qualified and sustainable, driving root-cause analysis to keep our fleet running at maximum efficiency.

In this role, your work will directly impact critical hardware domains, including power features, high-speed interfaces, high-bandwidth memory (HBM), compute functionality, and overall system performance optimization.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving channel behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $163,000-$237,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Own the bringup and NPI phases of the silicon development life-cycle and enable custom silicon products within platform infrastructure systems.
  • Integrate and validate complex hardware/software designs in pre-silicon through functional bringup. Be responsible for developing the integration plan, coordinating hardware and software delivery, and creating necessary tests for validation.
  • Develop detailed test plans, based on design specifications and coordination with a cross-functional team (architecture, design, software, firmware).
  • Perform long-term system characterization and debug and help root-cause failures; provide feedback to improve features like power management quality, performance, and reliability through generations of designs. This includes pre-silicon prototyping platforms as well as through post-silicon bringup and production.
  • Design, develop, operate, and maintain software based validation tests.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

About the Company

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Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

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COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V