# Post Silicon Validation Engineer

**Company**: Graphcore
**Location**: Bristol
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Post-Silicon Validation Engineer to join our collaborative team validating cutting-edge AI chips and platforms.

As a Post-Silicon Validation Engineer, you will play a critical role in supporting new product introductions and post-silicon validation. You will work with the Post-Silicon Validation team to bring first silicon to life, functionally validate it, and collaborate with other teams to characterise and develop a working product.

Responsibilities and duties:

- Plan, design, develop, and debug silicon validation tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon

- Deploy silicon validation tests on first silicon and debug them

- Develop automated test frameworks and regression test suites in Python to optimise validation efficiency

- Collaborate with engineers from various disciplines on multiple topics

- Analyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects

- Contribute to shared test and validation infrastructure

- Provide feedback to architects

Essential skills:

- Strong experience in bare metal/embedded C/C++

- Good knowledge of digital ASICs

- Highly motivated, self-starter, and team player

- Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of complex issues

- Experience in post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments

- Python, Linux

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills

- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and diagnostic skills

Desirable skills:

- Driver-level experience with PCIe, Ethernet, memory technologies, or other peripherals

- Good knowledge of mixed-signal building blocks

- Experience with Arm CPUs, System IP, and debug tools

- Experience with AMBA protocols

- Understanding of ML applications and workloads

- Experience in characterisation, failure analysis, test development, statistical analysis, and customer support

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Flexible working

- Generous annual leave policy

- Private medical insurance and health cash plan

- Dental plan

- Pension (matched up to 5%)

- Life assurance and income protection

- Generous parental leave policy

- Employee assistance programme

## Skills

### Required
- bare metal C/C++
- digital ASICs
- post-silicon validation
- Python
- Linux
- problem-solving
- analytical skills
- diagnostic skills

### Nice to have
- PCIe
- Ethernet
- memory technologies
- Arm CPUs
- System IP
- debug tools
- AMBA protocols
- ML applications
- characterisation
- failure analysis
- test development
- statistical analysis
- customer support

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