THE PERSON:
The ideal candidate is passionate about hands-on laboratory ownership and takes pride in building, maintaining, organizing, and improving complex engineering environments.
They are self-motivated, detail-oriented, and thrive on solving problems across hardware, operating systems, firmware, networking, automation, and test equipment.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Own the day-to-day operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of post-silicon validation labs.
Provision, configure, and support Windows and Linux systems used for validation and automation.
Perform platform bring-up and maintenance including BIOS, firmware, driver, operating system, and hardware updates.
Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot validation infrastructure including test platforms, instrumentation, thermal equipment, networking, racks, power distribution, and automation systems.
Execute and support automated power and performance validation activities.
Manage lab inventory, assets, equipment tracking, and issue tracking.
Partner with validation, firmware, architecture, software, IT, and lab support teams to maintain highly available and productive validation environments.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
Experience in post-silicon validation, lab operations, platform engineering, system administration, or hardware validation.
Strong Windows troubleshooting skills; Linux experience highly desired.
Experience with BIOS, firmware, driver, and OS deployment and maintenance.
Experience with lab instrumentation, data acquisition systems, power and thermal characterization equipment, and system debug tools.
Familiarity with automation frameworks and scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
Strong problem-solving skills across hardware, firmware, software, and infrastructure.
Experience working in a fast-paced, multi-site engineering environment.