Post Silicon Validation Engineer (AI/ML)

Location: On-site in San Jose, United States; relocation support is available for candidates moving to San Jose.

Salary: $160K–$260K per year, plus significant equity.

Company

hirify.global builds custom chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems for high-throughput, low-latency AI inference.

What you will do

• Drive first-silicon bring-up, including ASIC boot, initialization, and debug.
• Debug silicon issues across RTL, firmware, and system levels in collaboration with design, verification, and board teams.
• Validate and characterize custom IP blocks, accelerator components, compute units, and specialized processing elements.
• Execute IP-level and full-chip stress testing, corner-case analysis, and performance validation.
• Develop validation infrastructure, automation, test suites, result-capture systems, analysis tools, and regression frameworks.
• Use oscilloscopes, logic and protocol analyzers, BERTs, pattern generators, and other lab equipment to characterize signals and systems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in post-silicon validation, ASIC bring-up, and silicon debug, preferably with AI/ML accelerators.
• Expertise in early silicon bring-up, peripheral interfaces, board-level debug, firmware, bootloaders, and low-level silicon environments.
• Proficiency in C, Python, and scripting for validation automation.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, logic or protocol analyzers, and validation lab tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; a master’s degree is preferred.
• Ability to work fully in person and collaborate across RTL, DFT, ATE, firmware, and system architecture disciplines.

Nice to have

• Experience with I2C, SPI, UART, JTAG, PCIe, Ethernet, HBM, or DDR.
• Performance and thermal characterization experience.
• AI/ML model profiling, workload correlation, or system-level validation of accelerator and server platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully in-person engineering and research environment in San Jose.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with substantial premium support.
• $500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits.
• $2,000 monthly housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office.
• Relocation support, wellness benefits, and daily office lunch and dinner.
• Unlimited compute budget subject to return-on-investment justification.