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Debug Validation Engineer

You will drive post-silicon debug and validation activities for next-generation AI compute silicon and systems. You'll lead teams passionate about identifying, reproducing, analyzing, and resolving complex silicon, firmware, and system-level issues during bring-up, characterization, and product readiness. You'll combine deep technical debugging expertise with strong cross-functional collaboration across multiple engineering fields, working closely with architecture, RTL, firmware, software, and systems engineering groups to determine root causes and carry out corrective measures.

Responsibilities

  • Lead post-silicon debugging and validation efforts for AI compute silicon and platform technologies
  • Contribute to debug and validation activities across multiple projects and achievements
  • Analyze and address intricate silicon, firmware, software, and system-level problems during bring-up and validation
  • Develop structured debug methodologies and failure analysis processes to improve issue resolution efficiency
  • Work in close partnership with architecture, RTL, firmware, software, and systems engineering groups to determine root causes and carry out corrective measures
  • Drive debug of CPU, memory, interconnect, and high-speed I/O subsystems under functional, stress, and workload conditions
  • Develop and improve automated debug, regression, and validation infrastructure using Python and related technologies
  • Analyze logs, traces, telemetry, and hardware data to isolate and characterize system failures and performance issues
  • Support development of validation tests, debug tooling, and custom diagnostics to improve coverage and observability
  • Define validation metrics, debug workflows, and reporting standards to ensure consistent and repeatable analysis
  • Communicate technical risks, status, and recommendations clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional collaborators
  • Support silicon readiness reviews and contribute to product quality and release decisions
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of debug methodologies, validation infrastructure, and engineering workflows

Requirements

  • Strong experience in bare metal environments
  • Strong understanding of SoC and platform architectures
  • Expertise in debug infrastructure and post-silicon debug methodologies
  • Strong programming skills in Python, C, or debug scripting languages such as CMM or equivalent experience
  • Highly motivated self-starter with a collaborative and team-oriented approach
  • Ability to collaborate across teams and programming languages to uncover root causes of deep and complex issues
  • Experience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments
  • Strong Linux and Python experience
  • Outstanding communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively to solve complex problems
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and diagnostic skills
  • Deep knowledge of scan, DFT, JTAG, and trace infrastructure
  • Strong debug skills including fault tree analysis, failure isolation, fishbone methodologies, and system-level debug techniques
  • Capability to operate autonomously on technically intricate debug and validation tasks spanning hardware, firmware, and software areas
  • Understanding of DFT flows from insertion through post-silicon validation
  • Experience developing tooling for parsing and analyzing debug data, including scan dump parsing
  • Driver-level experience with PCIe, Ethernet, Memory technologies including LPDDR, DDR, and HBM, Peripheral interfaces such as I2C, I3C, and SPI
  • Experience using CoreSight and similar debug infrastructure including CTI, ETx, DStream, JLink, Lauterbach, ATB, and STM or equivalent experience
  • Strong understanding of mixed-signal components like PLLs, high-speed PHYs, and IC control/communication protocols
  • Experience with Arm CPU architectures, system IP, and associated debug tooling
  • Experience with AMBA protocols
  • Understanding of ML applications and associated workloads
  • Experience in characterization, failure analysis, test development, statistical analysis, and customer support

Benefits

  • 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 (health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support)
  • Healthy food and snacks at the office
  • Barista bar
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