Technical Lead (Silicon Validation)

What You'll Be Doing

Principal Accountabilities:

• Lead pre & post-silicon functional validation activities for complex SoCs, MCUs, and ASICs.
• Drive board bring-up covering power, reset, clock, straps, fuses, hardware initialization, and JTAG debug.
• Develop and execute validation plans, test cases, and debug strategies for functional and system-level validation.
• Lead hardware debug and failure analysis by performing root cause investigations of boot failures, system hangs, data corruption, memory access issues, and intermittent hardware failures.
• Validate and debug interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, CAN/CAN FD, LIN, FlexRay, UART, I2C, and SPI.
• Perform Lab Validation & debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, bus sniffers, and JTAG.
• Validate SRAM/Flash and debug memory initialization, access, and data integrity issues.
• Read schematics and perform pin-level signal tracing to isolate hardware issues.
• Work with RTL/design, firmware, architecture, and system teams to identify root causes and drive issues to closure.
• Lead technical debug activities and mentor validation engineers.

Job Complexity:

• Leads technical execution of silicon validation and hardware debug activities.
• Provides technical guidance on silicon bring-up, validation, failure analysis, and debug methodologies.
• Review validation plans, test methodologies, and debug approaches.
• Coordinates with cross-functional teams to resolve complex silicon and system-level issues.
• Drive issue tracking, validation metrics, and closure activities.
• Mentor junior engineers on silicon debug and validation best practices.

What Are We Looking For

• 10-15 years of strong hands-on expertise in silicon bring-up, board-level debugging, protocol validation, hardware failure analysis, and lab-based validation on real silicon platforms.
• Strong experience with SoC, MCU, or ASIC bring-up and functional validation.
• Hands-on experience with power, reset, clocking, straps, configuration errors.
• Experience debugging PCIe, Ethernet, CAN/CAN FD, LIN, FlexRay, UART, I2C, or SPI interfaces.
• Strong understanding of SRAM/Flash, register-level configuration, signal integrity, and hardware failure analysis.
• Proficiency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and other hardware debug equipment.
• Ability to read schematics and perform pin-level signal tracing.
• Strong root-cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading technical debug activities and mentoring engineers.

Education

• B.E./B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field.