Validation Engineer Senior

Markham - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara California that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. global company that specializes in manufacturing semiconductor devices used in computer processing. The company also produces flash memories graphics processors motherboard chip sets and a variety of components used in consumer electronics goods.

Job Title: Validation Engineer Senior

Work Location: Markham ON

Duration: 6 Months

Work Type: Temporary Assignment

Job Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

The Role:

The clients Pre-silicon Validation Team is seeking an energetic experienced System Emulation Engineer to join our growing team where past products include game consoles such as the PS5 and Xbox One.
As a System Emulation Engineer you will execute and perform debug of issues alongside validation FW and IP teams on emulation in order to meet product development milestones.
Additionally you will develop and expand infrastructure to enable increased coverage and testing in a pre-silicon environment.
This role specifically focuses on pre-silicon emulation debug development and validation of complex boot flows connections and peripherals in the SOC design.

The Person:

As a key contributor to the success of the clients IP you will be part of a leading team to drive and enhance clients abilities to deliver the highest quality industry leading technologies to market.
The System Emulation team fosters and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes provides ample opportunities to develop technical depth of knowledge and facilitate continuous career development.

Key Responsibilities:

Debug and support of system issues found in firmware hardware or software during pre-silicon emulation
Providing root cause analysis and guidance for the closure of issues to both internal and customer-facing/external teams
Reviewing and planning dependencies milestones and deliverables and coordinating with upstream and downstream teams
Defining and executing pre-silicon coverage on semi-custom systems on emulator systems
Driving collaborative technical discussions and innovations in order to enhance the capabilities in system emulation and debug including tool and script development technical and methodology enhancements
Drive own priorities to achieve business goals and ensure deliverables are on schedule

Preferred Experience:

Prior years of experience with low level debug and emulation execution of SoCs and embedded systems and their related software/firmware debug
In-depth knowledge of system architecture and concepts including proficiency in x86 and ARM architecture their functionality and debug practices
Experience with emulation systems debug including experience with industry standard emulator systems
Knowledge of Verilog C C assembly TCL/TK Python and/or other scripting languages
Demonstrated ability to grasp new technical concepts quickly
Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to details
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excel in a dynamic team working environment
Self-starter strong collaborator and able to independently drive tasks to completion especially those with high ambiguity

Assets

Strong understanding of BIOS and other firmware components OS (Linux Windows Android) and driver-level interactions at the system level common failure points within each and debug methodologies
Knowledge and use of standard debuggers programmers and related tools and methodologies (JTAG Dstream Lauderbach etc.)
Working debug knowledge of Windows and Linux-based operating systems and technologies as well as their needs and limitations in a pre-silicon environment
Familiarity with Git GitLab/GitHub and other software repository frameworks and methodologies
Technical understanding of Graphics Display PCIe Power Management or Security/Crypto architecture & design

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelors or Higher Accreditation in CE CS EE or related fields with 5 years of industry experience

Top Must Have Skills:

Experience in Debug/validation of complex hardware-software interactions
Emulation platform debug (waveforms tracker logs)
System Level boot flow understanding
Power Management validation

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara California that develops computer processors...