ASIC Validation Engineer, Power Validation & Characterization

ASIC Validation Engineer, Power Validation & CharacterizationMeta's Infra Silicon is to deliver scalable and reliable custom ASIC solutions to meet Meta 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 all aspects of silicon 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.ResponsibilitiesExecute validation and PVT characterization test plans on emulation platforms and on silicon in the labBring up boards and systems and set up test environments and instrumentationValidate your domain's feature sets and report results against expected behaviorRun and interpret domain measurementsWrite and maintain Python test scripts, automation, and analysis tooling; contribute to the team's shared validation frameworkTriage and debug failures hands-on — narrow down whether an issue is silicon, firmware, driver, board, or test setup — and document findings clearlyUse schematics and platform documentation to probe the right signals or nets and interpret results correctlyProduce clean, reproducible characterization data and summaries for design, firmware, and manufacturing partnersSupport lab infrastructure: bench, rack, and power setup; instrument calibration; switch and traffic-generator configuration; and keeping test environments runningQualificationsCurrently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta2+ years of relevant industry experience in ASIC validation, hardware bring-up, or a related silicon engineering disciplineHands-on lab experience with hardware bring-up, debug, and measurementExperience with test and measurement instrumentation in a lab environmentAbility to read schematics and platform documentationProficiency in Python for test development and automationExperience with pre-silicon (emulation/FPGA) or post-silicon validation Domain depth with multi-kW systems or rack-level powerFamiliarity with firmware/BMC interfaces and telemetry collectionExposure to PVT (Process / Voltage / Temperature) characterizationMS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related fieldExperience with custom silicon or data center hardwareExperience with both pre- and post-silicon validation