Silicon Validation Manager
Waymo•4h ago
Bangalore, Karnataka, IndiaOnsite₹9.3M–₹11MFull-timeManager Level10+ yrs exp
- Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
- At Waymo, we are designing the custom compute platform that runs the Waymo Driver, powering millions of rider-only trips and navigating over 100 million miles on public roads. When you are deploying custom silicon for safety-critical physical systems, the responsibility is great. You need absolute correctness, exhaustive coverage
- a relentless focus on continuous improvement. To achieve this, the Waymo Compute team is scaling worldwide. In this role you will shape the future of AI/ML hardware acceleration by guiding the validation of a cutting-edge SoC.
- This role is primarily in-office and reports to Head of Silicon.
- You will:
- As a Silicon Validation Manager, you will lead the group focused on post-silicon validation of custom ML SoCs. You will set strategy and coordinate resources, planning, and execution for the team.
- You will strategize, review
- execute test plans for silicon systems and subsystems. You will own silicon bring-up, new product introduction (NPI)
- sustaining efforts. You will serve as the central coordination point between your team and systems teams, including hardware, software, manufacturing
- supply chain. You will also manage relationships with vendors and contract manufacturers.
- You will verify that silicon meets functional and performance requirements and own qualification, characterization
- deliverables for post-silicon, including interfaces, compute cores, power
- performance. You will debug issues, suggest fixes
- ensure silicon meets quality and reliability requirements throughout the entire product life-cycle.
- You have:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in silicon bring-up and validation and/or product characterization as a product development engineer.
- 5+ years of experience managing a silicon development team and leading post-silicon projects, including planning, execution, and team formation, mentorship, and coordination.
- Experience as a manager or technical leadership for new product introduction in custom silicon.
- Proficiency with Firmware development, C++, and Python.
- Experience with lab equipment and debug tools, such as oscilloscope, protocol analyzer, JTAG debugger, etc
- Ability to work effectively within cross-functional and cross-site teams, strong communication and documentation capability.
- We prefer:
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
- Experience with the entire silicon development life-cycle related to Silicon Validation, architecture and design requirements, DFx features, tapeout, planning and readiness for post-silicon
- execution of post-silicon.
- Experience bringing silicon to high-volume manufacturing and sustaining programs.
- Experience in direct Silicon design or verification, and understanding of SystemVerilog.
- The expected base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education
- skill level. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan
- generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Salary Range
- ₹9,250,000 — ₹11,000,000 INR
Required skills
FirmwareC++Pythonsilicon validationproduct characterizationdebug toolsoscilloscopeprotocol analyzerJTAG