THE PERSON: You are a highly motivated hands-on executor with a development background, problem solving ability, and communication skills. Ability to prioritize tasks along with willingness to learn and adapt. Excellent teamwork skills and capability to support a technical team is crucial. Able to work across geographies and team boundaries to get results. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Participate in systems design development throughout entire product lifecycle, from pre-silicon and emulation through post-silicon and software integration. Support technical presentations demonstrating a good understanding of hardware architecture and expertise in systems design. Collaborate with Design, Software, Tools and other teams to drive the definition of testing and debug methodologies to provide the best possible coverage and customer experience for the IP. Isolation and debug of issues found during pre-silicon, bring-up, validation, and production phases of S3 products. Able to proactively support team culture that fosters knowledge sharing, excellence, and collaboration. Executing validation strategies, enablement of features and unit test plans Publishing and aligning test plan requirements and dependencies Working closely with supporting teams such as design, diagnostics, driver, and project leadership. Support cross-functional technical discussions to drive root cause identification and resolution on technical issues. Participating in technical innovations to enhance validation capabilities including tool and script developments, technical and methodology enhancements. REQUIREMENTS: In-depth knowledge of SOC architecture and concepts. Experience with IP/System level bring-up. Experience in Video Codec including encoding and decoding. Knowledge of Virtualization. Experience with FPGA and other hardware emulation platforms for pre-silicon debug. Strong understanding of BIOS, OS, and driver-level interactions and common failure points. Good understanding of Boot Flows/Sequences. Experience with common lab equipment, computer hardware, and networks. Led process improvement initiatives to improve engineering quality. Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills. Knowledge of standard power management features and use-cases. PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: Minimum 5-6 years of experience in pre and post-silicon validation. Demonstrated ability to grasp new technical concepts quickly. Strong programming/scripting skills (e.g. Python, C/C++, Ruby). Experience with IP/System level bring-up, SOC debug techniques and methodologies. Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to details. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Self-starter, strong collaborator, and able to independently drive tasks to completion. Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple issues at the same time. ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field strongly preferred. Show more Show less