Silicon Validation Engineer
MatX · Mountain View (HQ) or Remote
CHECKED 7H AGO
Infrastructureremote$160k–$600k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own silicon bring-up from first power-on through production readiness.
- Build vertically integrated silicon to systems for largest ML workloads.
- Validate chip and SiP functionality, performance and system behavior.
What they offer
- 4 weeks PTO accrued plus 12 company holidays
- Company-subsidized medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- 401K with up to 5% company contribution plus disability coverage
- $1500 annual professional development budget
- Onsite lunch and dinner Monday-Friday and paid daily commute
- Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave and mental health benefits
Ideal candidate
Hands-on validator who thrives on first-silicon bring-up and chasing complex cross-functional failures to root cause. Collaborative owner excited to build best-in-class AI compute from silicon to systems.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience in silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, hardware emulation, Top-level DV, or 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
- remote policy
- Up to 3 weeks remote work
Lab profile
About MatX
Designs vertically integrated AI silicon and systems to run frontier models at physics-limit efficiency.
What they build
- AI accelerator silicon for GenAI training and inference
- Rack-scale AI data center systems
- Full-stack silicon-to-software platform for large ML workloads
Known for
- Vertically integrated silicon-to-systems design
- AI accelerator architecture and performance modeling for LLMs
- High-efficiency power architecture from chip to rack
- Silicon verification and software-hardware co-verification