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.
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
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 Meta
- 2+ 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 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 NICs; RDMA (RoCE and/or InfiniBand); Linux networking internals and NIC drivers
- Exposure to PVT (Process / Voltage / Temperature) characterization
- Experience with custom silicon or data center hardware