ASIC Validation Engineer, Network Validation & Characterization

Meta's Infra Silicon is to deliver scalable and reliable custom ASIC solutions to meet Meta data center needs. Ramping to production and solving data center scaling and deployment challenges requires a systems-based approach to silicon bring-up and validation.

The team works on all aspects of silicon productization: early architecture and design inputs, pre-silicon validation on emulation platforms, first-silicon bring-up, and post-silicon characterization across process, voltage, and temperature corners. We write tests, build bare-metal environments and reusable frameworks that scale from pre-silicon platforms to large fleets of ASICs in the lab, and we build and maintain extensive lab automation to do it at volume and velocity.

ASIC Validation Engineer, Network Validation & Characterization Responsibilities:

Execute validation and PVT characterization test plans on emulation platforms and on silicon in the lab Bring up boards and systems and set up test environments and instrumentation

Validate your domain's feature sets and report results against expected behavior

Run and interpret domain measurements

Write and maintain Python test scripts, automation, and analysis tooling contribute to the team's shared validation framework

Triage and debug failures hands-on — narrow down whether an issue is silicon, firmware, driver, board, or test setup — and document findings clearly

Use schematics and platform documentation to probe the right signals or nets and interpret results correctly

Produce clean, reproducible characterization data and summaries for design, firmware, and manufacturing partners

Support lab infrastructure: bench, rack, and power setup instrument calibration switch and traffic-generator configuration and keeping test environments running

Minimum Qualifications:

Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta2+ years of relevant industry experience in ASIC validation, hardware bring-up, or a related silicon engineering discipline

Hands-on lab experience with hardware bring-up, debug, and measurement

Experience with test and measurement instrumentation in a lab environment

Ability to read schematics and platform documentation

Proficiency in Python for test development and automation

Experience with pre-silicon (emulation/FPGA) or post-silicon validation

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with both pre- and post-silicon validation

Familiarity with firmware/BMC interfaces and telemetry collection MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

Domain depth with front-end and/or back-end NICsRDMA (RoCE and/or Infini Band)
Linux networking internals and NIC drivers

Exposure to PVT (Process / Voltage / Temperature) characterization

Experience with custom silicon or data center hardware

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and Whats App further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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