ASIC Validation Engineer, Network Validation & Characterization

What you'll do

• Execute validation and PVT characterization plans, measure domain behavior, and report results.
• Bring up boards and systems, configure lab instrumentation and environments, and debug failures across silicon, firmware, drivers, boards, and test setups.
• Develop Python tests, automation, analysis tooling, and reusable validation frameworks; produce reproducible characterization data and summaries.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience; degree must be completed before joining Meta.
• 2+ years of relevant industry experience in ASIC validation, hardware bring-up, or a related silicon engineering discipline.
• Hands-on lab experience with hardware bring-up, debug, and measurement, including test and measurement instrumentation.
• Proficiency in Python for test development and automation; ability to read schematics and platform documentation.

Nice to have

• Experience with pre-silicon (emulation/FPGA) or post-silicon validation; experience with both pre- and post-silicon validation.
• Familiarity with firmware/BMC interfaces and telemetry collection; MS in a related field; NIC, RDMA, or Linux networking depth; PVT characterization; custom silicon or data center hardware.

Pay

$114,000/year to $172,000/year (base salary); bonus and equity amounts not stated.

Tools

Python, emulation, FPGA, firmware/BMC, PVT, RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand