We are seeking a Principal Engineer, Validation with deep technical expertise and strong system-level thinking to architect, lead, and continuously improve post-silicon system and functional validation for complex SoC/MCU platforms.
This role is mission-critical to ensuring first-time-right silicon, validating functional correctness, feature compliance, performance, power, and robustness across real-world use cases, PVT corners, and customer workloads. The Principal Engineer acts as a technical authority and trusted advisor, driving validation strategy across pre-silicon, emulation, FPGA, and silicon phases while preventing escapes.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and define automotive system鈥憀evel post鈥憇ilicon validation strategy aligned to ASIL鈥慏 quality and zero鈥慹scape goals.
- Drive pre鈫攑ost silicon continuity, enabling reuse of validation content across simulation, emulation, FPGA, and silicon.
- Architect and own end-to-end validation plans, test strategies, and feature-to-coverage matrices mapped to architecture and design specifications
- Lead validation of boot, power/clock/reset, safety mechanisms, memory, interconnects, and interfaces under stress, corner, and fault conditions.
- Influence SoC architecture and design by identifying validation risks, corner cases, and observability gaps early.
- Lead system bring鈥憉p on automotive evaluation boards, emulation/FPGA platforms, and silicon.
- Define requirements for validation infrastructure, lab readiness, instrumentation, and automation frameworks.
- Serve as final technical escalation point for complex post鈥憇ilicon issues; drive disciplined, evidence鈥慴ased RCA across HW/FW/SW.
- Establish escape鈥憄revention mechanisms using coverage proxies, stress scenarios, and data鈥慸riven signoff criteria.
- Champion automation鈥慺irst validation, including regressions, diagnostics, CI integration, and quality metrics.
- Own validation readiness assessments, risk reporting, and go/no鈥慻o recommendations for production release.
- Act as a technical bridge across architecture, design, DV, firmware, software, product, and manufacturing teams
- Act as a trusted technical advisor, mentoring engineers and set technical direction and best practices for the validation organization