Silicon Validation Engineer

Summary

MatX is developing vertically integrated hardware and software solutions to support large-scale machine learning workloads for AGI. The Silicon Validation Engineer will own silicon bring-up and validation from first power-on through production readiness, developing validation plans, debugging failures, and collaborating across hardware, firmware, software, and product engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own silicon bring-up and validation from first power-on through feature validation and production readiness
• Develop and execute validation plans for chip-level and SiP-level functionality, performance, reliability, and system behavior
• Validate boot, reset, initialization, power management, recovery, memory, interconnect, high-speed interfaces, and package-level functionality
• Work across Top-level DV, Palladium emulation, lab validation, and package validation to improve coverage and correlation between environments
• Debug complex failures using logs, registers, traces, waveforms, firmware output, and lab equipment
• Analyze issues across RTL, firmware, software, board, package, and silicon boundaries
• Collaborate with architecture, design, DV, emulation, firmware, software, and product engineering teams
• Define observability and debug requirements and improve validation automation, execution, and failure triage

Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, hardware emulation, Top-level DV, or a related field
• Experience validating complex SoCs, accelerators, or highly integrated silicon products
• Strong understanding of digital hardware, SoC architecture, and hardware-firmware interaction
• Proven ability to debug complex cross-functional failures and drive them to root cause
• Experience working with real silicon and lab platforms
• Familiarity with firmware, embedded software, drivers, and low-level hardware access
• Ability to read and understand C or C++ code for debug purposes
• Python or similar scripting experience
• Ability to read specifications, register descriptions, validation plans, and relevant RTL
• Strong ownership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Experience with both pre-silicon and post-silicon validation
• Experience with Cadence Palladium
• Experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, assertions, coverage, or waveform debug
• Experience bringing up first silicon
• Experience with HBM, DDR, PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, die-to-die interfaces, or advanced packaging
• Familiarity with JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or protocol analyzers

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Strong hands-on experience in silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, hardware emulation, Top-level DV, or a related field
• Experience validating complex SoCs, accelerators, or highly integrated silicon products
• Strong understanding of digital hardware, SoC architecture, and hardware-firmware interaction
• Proven ability to debug complex cross-functional failures and drive them to root cause
• Experience working with real silicon and lab platforms
• Familiarity with firmware, embedded software, drivers, and low-level hardware access
• Ability to read and understand C or C++ code for debug purposes
• Python or similar scripting experience
• Ability to read specifications, register descriptions, validation plans, and relevant RTL
• Strong ownership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills

Nice to Haves

• Experience with both pre-silicon and post-silicon validation
• Experience with Cadence Palladium
• Experience with SystemVerilog, UVM, assertions, coverage, or waveform debug
• Experience bringing up first silicon
• Experience with HBM, DDR, PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, die-to-die interfaces, or advanced packaging
• Familiarity with JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or protocol analyzers

Benefits

• Equity
• 4 weeks PTO (accrued)
• 12 company Holidays
• Up to 3 weeks remote work
• Company-subsidized Medical (Kaiser or Anthem) for employees & dependents
• Guardian Dental and Vision insurances for employee & dependents
• Life insurance (employee only)
• HSA and FSA offerings via Lively
• Roth IRA and/or 401K retirement plans
• Up to 5% company contribution to 401K (even if you don't contribute)
• 100% company-paid life insurance (up to $300K)
• Long-term disability insurance
• $1500 Professional Development Budget (per year)
• Onsite team lunch & dinner Monday - Friday
• 100% reimbursement for your daily commute via the company Uber account or train ride reimbursement
• $50/mo to use on the perk you value most
• $35/mo for cellular
• $40/mo for wifi
• Amazon business account for up to $1000 in office setup purchases
• 100% paid mental health benefit via SpringHealth and Guardian EAP
• Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave regardless of path to parenthood
• 10 weeks pregnancy disability leave
• Flexible return-to-work hours
• Benepass reproductive health & parental benefit