What to Expect
The candidate will focus on developing Post-Silicon validation plan, tools and infrastructure for Tesla’s custom SoCs and platforms for vehicles and data centers. As a Silicon and Systems Validation Engineer, the candidate will take on challenges like test plan development, functional and electrical validation of the IP in emulation and post-silicon, and perform system level power characterization/reduction. The candidate will regularly take part in hardware design and schematics review, firmware development, and building automated test infrastructures for running large volume of post silicon system level tests, and also troubleshoot complex hardware bugs and field returns. The ideal candidate will need to have a deep understanding of Silicon Architecture, with a focus on the latest generations of PCIe controller and PHY designs, and is comfortable in working on PCIe architectures involving SOCs, switches, and NIC topologies.
What You’ll Do
Bring up and characterize Autopilot Custom Silicon and PCBA
Collaborate with diverse teams in hardware design, schematic reviews, firmware development, and building automated test infrastructures
Write test plans, develop test cases, and catch design bugs before production
Characterize and improve power and performance consumption at a system level
Perform Failure Analysis on CM and field return units
Write firmware & driver code for platform bring-up and stress-testing
What You’ll Bring
Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering or equivalent major with 5+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent experience
Experience in PCIe Gen6 bringup and validation of SOCs, switches, network, and datacenter applications
Familiar with design/debug of ARM or x86 System on Chip Architectures 
Experience in Silicon bringup and validation, and PCBA/Platform debug
Experience with Statistical Data Analysis and Design of Experiments
Experience with Electrical Testing and Protocol Analyzer equipment
Familiar with Linux OS and Scripting

Palo Alto, California

Full time