Meta
Silicon Validation Engineer, Infrastructure
$114K–$172K
Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Austin, TX - Experience
- 2+ years in ASIC or SoC development, validation, or first-silicon bring-up.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience; degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
About the job
Validates and brings up custom infrastructure ASICs from pre-silicon testing through post-silicon characterization and fleet-scale productization.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute functional validation plans, test cases, scripts, and automation across simulation, emulation, and silicon platforms.
- Bring up and debug chips, root-cause issues across hardware and software layers, and characterize performance, power, and timing margins.
- Build diagnostics and validation infrastructure, collaborate across design and systems teams, and document findings and silicon errata.
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.
- 2+ years of experience in ASIC or SoC development, validation, or first-silicon bring-up.
- Experience writing test cases or validation scripts in Python, C/C++, System Verilog, or a comparable language.
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging silicon products using hardware debug tooling.
Nice to have
- Experience validating high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, HBM, Ethernet, or SerDes, and with pre-silicon emulation or prototyping platforms.
- Familiarity with UVM, power management validation, diagnostics or bare-metal environments, Linux/server systems, or silicon productization.
Pay
$114,000/year to $172,000/year (base salary)
Tools
Python, C/C++, System Verilog, PCIe, DDR, HBM, Ethernet, SerDes
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative