Summary:

The Reality Labs team is building products that make it easier for people to connect with the ones they love most. We are a team of world-class experts developing and shipping products at the intersection of silicon, hardware, software, and content. The Reality Labs team seeks a Silicon Validation Firmware Engineer.As a Silicon Validation Firmware Engineer, you will be part of the End-to-end (E2E) System Prototyping and Validation team at RL Silicon. Your work will focus on silicon validation of ARVR chips in an E2E system context.

Required Skills:

Silicon Validation Engineer Responsibilities:

1. Develop test plans and verification environments for IP/SoC/System-level flows using the Pre-Si systems

2. Write C/C++ applications to verify the SoC model against architectural specifications, able to debug through layers of SW applications to RTL FSDBs

3. Map Protocol Checkers, RTL assertions from SoC UVM models to Emulation and FPGA prototypes

4. Enable product-level user scenarios on the Pre-Si platforms and generate data for Power & Performance of different IP Blocks

5. Bring-up and integrate pre-silicon platforms for SW/FW activities

6. Validate Cross IP datapaths, support SoC bring-up and Post-Si debug activities

7. Work closely with product engineers, algorithm engineers, software engineers, architects and HW designers to enable pre/post-silicon validation content, quickly prototype new end user experiences and features

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

8. 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.

9. Experience writing FW flows and custom scripts using C/C++, Python

10. System debug experience using tools like Lauterbach, gdb, or similar

11. Knowledge in chip architecture, µArchitecture, or design verification experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

12. Understanding of modern CPU architecture, memory subsystems, Cache hierarchies, SoC integration flows and UPF based power management

13. Solid understanding of SoC architecture and Pre-Si Systems with a track record of enabling full verification cycles of complex SoCs (involving Graphics, CPU and DSP Cores)

14. Experience with Hardware Security IPs, Secure Hardware design for Embedded Systems

15. Understanding of of Startup code, Linker Scripts, Assembly code

16. Performance modeling and power analysis experience

17. Experience with IO’s such as MIPI CSI & DSI, USB, PCIE, LPDDR

18. Experience of dealing with ambiguity in a fast changing consumer electronics field

19. Experience working effectively as an individual and in a multidisciplinary team

Public Compensation:

$95,400/year to $166,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

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