Pre/Post Silicon Validation Framework/Tools / Infra development engineer, Staff

• Architect, design, develop, and maintain scalable embedded software frameworks, validation infrastructure, and platform software for pre-silicon and post-silicon SoC validation.

• Develop reusable framework components, platform abstraction layers, middleware, and system software services supporting multicore and heterogeneous compute environments.

• Drive software architecture and framework design to enable portability, scalability, maintainability, and reuse across multiple SoC programs and IP validation domains.

• Develop and maintain bring-up, validation, and debug infrastructure for bare-metal, lightweight RTOS, emulation, FPGA, and post-silicon environments.

• Debug and root-cause complex system-level issues spanning hardware, firmware, operating systems, framework software, memory subsystems, coherency fabrics, and system infrastructure IPs.

• Develop framework capabilities supporting multicore, multiprocessor, and heterogeneous CPU architectures, including system-level synchronization, coherency, and performance optimization.

• Design, implement, and optimize automated validation, regression, and release workflows to improve productivity, quality, and scalability.

• Integrate static analysis, code-quality tools, build systems, and release processes into Continuous Integration (CI) environments.

• Collaborate closely with architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, and validation teams to enable efficient silicon bring-up, feature validation, and debug.

• Drive continuous improvements in software quality, framework architecture, automation, and validation methodologies.

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

• 6+ to 10 years of industry experience in Embedded Software, System Software, SoC Validation, Silicon Enablement, Platform Software, Framework Development, or related domains.

• Proven experience in embedded software architecture, framework development, low-level software design, and complex system-level debug.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills in hardware-software integrated environments.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong expertise in Embedded Software Architecture, Framework Design, and Infrastructure Development using C, C++, and Assembly.

• Proven experience designing and developing scalable software frameworks, platform abstraction layers, middleware, validation infrastructure, and reusable system software components.

• Extensive experience in low-level software development, including boot code, exception handling, interrupt management, startup sequences, and C-Assembly interworking.

• Deep understanding of CPU architectures and microarchitectural concepts, including ARMv8/ARMv9, x86, and PowerPC architectures.

• Strong expertise in multicore, multiprocessor, and heterogeneous SoC environments, including SMP, AMP, heterogeneous compute subsystems, and cross-core software interactions.

• Demonstrated ability to debug complex system-level issues spanning hardware, firmware, operating systems, framework software, and validation infrastructure.

• Strong understanding of cache coherency, I/O coherency, memory ordering, synchronization primitives, inter-processor communication, and concurrency-related issues.

• Deep knowledge of SoC architecture, including compute subsystems, memory hierarchies, interconnect fabrics, power management, and system infrastructure IPs.

• Strong understanding of Operating Systems, RTOS, and Linux kernel internals, including multithreading, scheduling policies, locking mechanisms, interrupt handling, virtual memory, MMU architecture, and kernel synchronization primitives.

• Deep understanding of memory management, weakly ordered memory models, cache architectures, pipelining, memory barriers, TLBs, coherency protocols, and performance optimization techniques.

• Strong expertise in software build infrastructure, compiler toolchains, linker internals, Makefiles, linker/scatter scripts, and build system architecture.

• Proficiency with GCC, Clang/LLVM, ARM toolchains, code optimization techniques, and root-causing complex compiler and linker issues.

• Strong debugging expertise using JTAG, trace, emulation, FPGA, and silicon debug tools.

• Proficiency in Python and Shell scripting for automation, framework development, debug, and productivity tooling.

Desired Skills

• Experience architecting and developing large-scale embedded software frameworks or validation infrastructure used across multiple engineering teams and SoC programs.

• Experience with silicon bring-up, board bring-up, post-silicon validation, and hardware-software integration.

• Hands-on experience with pre-silicon emulation, FPGA prototyping, and post-silicon debug environments.

• Strong understanding of ARM-based SoC architectures, memory hierarchies, cache coherency protocols, interconnect fabrics, and system infrastructure IPs.

• Experience developing framework abstractions supporting heterogeneous processing elements such as application processors, real-time processors, DSPs, AI/ML accelerators, and security subsystems.

• Familiarity with CI/CD systems, automated regression infrastructure, release management, and software quality methodologies.

• Experience with JTAG, Lauterbach Trace32, hardware trace, and performance analysis tools.

• Experience with source code management systems such as Git and Perforce.

• Familiarity with build automation, containerized development environments, and scalable software deployment workflows.