Hardware Silicon Validation Team Lead NPU SoC

You will lead NPU first-silicon bring-up and system validation across compute, interconnect, memory, and high-speed interface blocks. You will plan validation roadmaps and schedules, coordinate technical decisions across functions, mentor engineers, establish validation processes, debug hardware and software issues, and improve validation automation and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead first-silicon bring-up and scenario-based functional validation for NPU, CPU subsystem, NoC, memory, and high-speed interface blocks
• Plan NPU bring-up and validation roadmaps and manage schedules
• Coordinate with design, DV, firmware, software, and QA functions and lead technical decisions
• Lead team capability development and establish systematic validation processes
• Define validation plans and manage coverage in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments
• Develop bare-metal test firmware and validation scenarios
• Debug system-level hardware and software issues and develop workarounds
• Support performance validation and optimization
• Develop automation scripts and build CI/CD-integrated validation environments

Requirements

• Leadership experience in silicon validation or equivalent senior experience
• Experience in SoC, ASIC, silicon validation, or system validation
• Strong understanding of ARM architecture, AMBA bus, and SoC and computer architecture
• Embedded C, C++, and Rust programming capability, including bare-metal development experience
• Understanding and experience with validation methodologies including test planning, bug tracking, and coverage
• JTAG debugger and hardware/software co-debugging capability
• Problem-solving ability for complex system issues