CPU Silicon Validation Engineer

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In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort that collaborates with many disciplines and has a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. You will be part of a team responsible for the functional validation of our CPUs, with the aim of identifying logic design and circuit bugs. You will be developing CPU test content using our test generators, defining new test cases for our cutting-edge CPU designs, and doing silicon bring-up in our lab.

Key Responsibilities: • Work closely with CPU RTL and DV teams to understand changes to our CPU designs and to engineer test content for new CPU features. • Create CPU validation test plans, ensuring all key features are covered. • Develop SW workloads to stress test the CPU and integrate these into our existing validation environments. • Help maintain and improve our random test generator by adding support for new CPU architectural and microarchitectural features. • Drive the bring-up and execution of our silicon validation tools in pre-silicon (FPGAs) and post-silicon (development boards) • Debug functional silicon failures closely with Design and DV counterparts.