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Silicon Validation Engineer

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The Reality Labs team is building products that make it easier for people to connect with the ones they love most. We are a team developing and shipping products at the intersection of silicon, hardware, software, and content. The Reality Labs team seeks a Silicon Validation Engineer. As a Silicon Validation Engineer, you will be part of the RL Silicon Validation team validating high performance silicon and leading the effort to ensure high-quality silicon delivery.

Job Responsibility:

  • Assist in the development, execution, and sign-off of SoC and end-to-end system validation plans
  • Identify and communicate technical risks related to the project to the stakeholders under guidance
  • Participate in silicon bring-up and validation activities
  • Understand system HW/SW/FW components as a whole and assist in driving test execution and debug with cross functional/PnP teams
  • Collaborate with the team for lab debug, silicon bug repro, failure analysis, and failure report activities
  • Work with cross-functional teams (i.e., architecture, IP, FW, EE, SoC, and product engineer teams) to generate validation reports for SoC and systems
  • Adapt to changing roadmaps and validation plans based on changes in an agile environment

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience in bring-up, debug, and validation of complex SoCs
  • Experience in high-speed protocols (i.e., MIPI, PCIe, USB, DDR) and hands-on experience in high-speed IO bring-up
  • Experience in silicon validation planning, execution, validation FW development, and validation sign-off
  • Experience using lab equipment, such as scopes, BERTs, protocol analyzers, JTAG debuggers, etc
  • Experience with building silicon validation infrastructure and test automation, in highly cross-functional environments - across multiple team sites

Nice to have:

  • Knowledge and experience in pre-silicon validation platforms (i.e., FPGA and emulation)
  • Knowledge of ASIC design flow, silicon foundry test flow, and silicon FW development process
  • 1+ years of experience working in a cross functional and cross site team environment
  • Experience with building silicon validation infrastructure and test automation

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Job Posted:
January 23, 2026

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