Google
Silicon Validation Engineer, CPU
Found: January 21, 2026
This role is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute test procedures to establish functionality of new silicon.
- Debug failures with cross-functional teams for silicon, boards, software, and manufacturing.
- Provide regular updates about silicon health to platform, software, and volume manufacturing teams.
- Plan, develop, and execute tests to validate CPU subsystem and integration at the system level.
- Validate design on pre-silicon and post-silicon platforms and support silicon debug and field failures.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in developing test and debug infrastructure and test/lab automation scripting.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience programming in C, embedded C, and scripting in Python/Perl/Tcl.
- Experience executing tests on emulation platforms or FPGA and with JTAG debuggers.
- Knowledge of programming, debugging, protocol debugging, C, design validation, and technical troubleshooting.