Hardware & Silicon Validation Senior Principal Engineer (Semiconductor)

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States

Salary: $173,280–$259,600 per year

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor solutions for enterprise, cloud, AI, carrier, networking, and data infrastructure applications.

What you will do

• Own validation strategy and execution for hardware platforms, SoCs, ASICs, and subsystems from early silicon bring-up through production release.
• Define validation architectures, test plans, coverage metrics, and sign-off criteria aligned with PCI-SIG, IEEE Ethernet, and JEDEC standards.
• Lead post-silicon bring-up, functional and electrical validation, stress testing, corner-case testing, board bring-up, system integration, and protocol validation.
• Perform root-cause analysis and corrective action for issues involving SoCs, PHYs, firmware, software, and boards.
• Support customer qualification, deployment, post-FCS issue resolution, technical training, and high-priority debug war rooms.
• Coordinate with ASIC, PHY, firmware/software, diagnostics, system architecture, manufacturing, program management, and field applications teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 15+ years of experience, or a Master’s/PhD with 10–12 years of experience.
• Experience leading hardware or post-silicon validation for complex SoCs, ASICs, boards, or systems across multiple product cycles.
• Hands-on expertise with DDR4/DDR5, LPDDR5, HBM, PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, or similar high-speed interfaces.
• Understanding of SoC architecture, hardware–software interactions, system dependencies, production test development, manufacturing qualification, and failure analysis.
• Experience validating designs against JEDEC, PCI-SIG, IEEE, and internal specifications.
• Proficiency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, traffic generators, and power measurement tools, plus strong customer-facing communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across enterprise, cloud, AI, networking, storage, and data-center hardware technologies.
• Employee stock purchase plan with a two-year lookback.
• Family support programs and resources for work-life balance.
• Mental and physical health resources, recognition programs, and service awards.
• Employment may require eligibility to access export-controlled technology under U.S. export control regulations.

Hiring process

• Interviews assess individual experience, technical reasoning, and communication in real time.
• AI tools, transcription apps, automated answer generators, and note-taking bots are not permitted during interviews.