Silicon Validation Engineer, Google Cloud

Google

3 - 5 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 22/09/2025

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Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
3 years of experience with functional tests for silicon validation (e.g., C or C++ or Python) or developing/validating firmware, embedded software.
Experience in silicon bring-up, functional validation, characterizing, and qualifying silicon.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with scripting (i.e. Python) for automation development.
Experience with hardware prototyping, including hardware/software integration (i.e., pre-silicon use of emulation, software-based test, and diagnostics development).
Experience with power characterization, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express(PCIe), and Double Data Rate.
Experience in ready to launch design, verification, or emulation.
Experience with board schematics, layout, and debug methodologies using lab equipment.
Knowledge of System on Chip(SoC) architecture, including boot flows.

About the job

Our computational challenges are so big, complex and unique we can't just purchase off-the-shelf hardware, we've got to make it ourselves. Your team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google's services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers affecting millions of Google users.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute tests in post-silicon validation, hardware emulators, and assist in bring-up processes from prototyping through post-silicon validation.
Drive debugging and investigation efforts to root-cause complex, cross-functional issues, including pre-silicon prototyping platforms as well as post-silicon bring-up and production.
Ensure validation provides necessary functional coverage for confident design.
Help operate and maintain the hardware emulation platform for pre-silicon integration and validation.

About Company

Google is a multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It is best known for its search engine but also develops products and services in areas like online advertising (Google Ads), cloud computing (Google Cloud), operating systems (Android, Chrome OS), web browsers (Chrome), and consumer electronics (Pixel devices, Nest). Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., its parent company formed in 2015. It plays a major role in shaping the internet, AI, and digital innovation globally.