Silicon Validation Engineer, Networking
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Google Cloud is seeking a Silicon Validation Engineer to drive post-silicon validation of Google's custom silicon solutions, including pre-silicon setups and real silicon platforms. You will develop and execute validation content, debug issues across cross-functional teams, and build automated tests using Python and C/C++ to verify networking functionality and performance. The role contributes to turning silicon into a product, with a focus on security, efficiency, and reliable hyperscale cloud infrastructure.
Silicon Validation Engineer, Networking
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience with functional tests for silicon validation (i.e., writing in C or C++).
- Experience in silicon bring-up, functional validation, characterizing, and qualifying silicon.
- Experience in packet processing, data path, packet buffering, scheduler, networking protocols offload engine.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with hardware prototyping, including hardware/software integration (i.e., pre-silicon use of emulation, software-based test, and diagnostics development).
- Experience in Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface, PCIe internal switch, PCIe components Root Port (RP)/Endpoint (EP) link establishment.
- Knowledge of SoC architecture, including boot flows and embedded processors/firmware.
About the job
As a Silicon Validation Engineer at Google Cloud, you will play a pivotal role in the validation of Google's custom silicon solutions that power our cloud infrastructure bringing it to the highest quality level. With your expertise in post-silicon validation, you will be identifying and resolving issues before they impact our customers, ensuring a seamless and high performance cloud experience.
The ML, Systems, & Cloud AI (MSCA) organization at Google designs, implements, and manages the hardware, software, machine learning, and systems infrastructure for all Google services (Search, YouTube, etc.) and Google Cloud. Our end users are Googlers, Cloud customers and the billions of people who use Google services around the world.
We prioritize security, efficiency, and reliability across everything we do - from developing our latest TPUs to running a global network, while driving towards shaping the future of hyperscale computing. Our global impact spans software and hardware, including Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, the leading AI platform for bringing Gemini models to enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
- Define, develop and execute post-silicon validation content on both pre-silicon setups and real silicon platforms in the lab.
- Drive silicon from being a chip towards becoming a product.
- Debug and investigate issues along cross-functional teams such as Firmware, Software, Design, Design Verification, Architecture and multiple production teams.
- Provide quality functional coverage for Google designs.
- Test development and automation, design, implement, and maintain validation tests using scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, C/C++) to verify SmartNIC functionality and performance.
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