Sr Silicon Bring-Up and Integration Engineer
Blue Origin1 day ago
Cupertino, CA, USA or Seattle, WA, USASenior
Base Salary
$230k - $323k/yr
Responsibilities
- Perform first-silicon power-on, initialization, configuration, functional bring-up, and debugging of custom SoCs and ASICs.
- Develop low-level C/C++ software, firmware, diagnostics, and Python-based test infrastructure for silicon control, validation, automation, and analysis.
- Create pre-silicon bring-up software, test sequences, register-access utilities, diagnostics, and validation capabilities using simulation, emulation, FPGA prototypes, or other platforms.
- Integrate and debug low-level software and firmware with silicon hardware, including clocks, resets, memory interfaces, peripherals, data paths, and high-speed interfaces.
- Develop and execute functional, performance, stress, corner-condition, characterization, and regression tests across silicon revisions.
- Debug failures spanning silicon hardware, RTL, firmware, software, boards, power, clocks, interfaces, and system-level behavior.
- Automate DUT configuration, lab instrumentation, data collection, regression testing, and analysis.
- Bring up and debug JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, DDR/LPDDR, and custom chip-to-chip interfaces.
- Define evaluation-board, fixture, socket, instrumentation, and debug requirements and collaborate with board-design teams on implementation.
- Collaborate with ASIC, verification, firmware/software, RF/DSP, board, system, manufacturing, and test teams to resolve integration issues.
- Support silicon maturation from engineering samples through characterization, validation, production readiness, and verification of hardware and software fixes.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC bring-up, post-silicon validation, embedded systems, silicon integration, or closely related fields.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on experience with ASIC or SoC bring-up, post-silicon validation, or low-level hardware/software integration.
- Strong C/C++ programming experience for low-level hardware control, embedded software, firmware, or silicon diagnostics.
- Strong Python or equivalent scripting experience for test automation, instrumentation, and data analysis.
- Strong understanding of SoC architecture, memory-mapped registers, interrupts, DMA, clock/reset architecture, memory systems, and hardware/software interfaces.
- Experience with low-level interfaces and debug protocols including JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, or DDR/LPDDR.
- Hands-on experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum/signal analyzers, power supplies, and other silicon validation equipment.
- Ability to debug complex problems across hardware, firmware/software, and system boundaries and read schematics, silicon specifications, register maps, timing diagrams, and hardware documentation.
- Preferred qualifications include first-silicon bring-up of complex ASICs or SoCs, validation frameworks, automated regressions, mixed-signal SoCs, signal and power integrity, Linux device drivers, embedded RTOS environments, boot flows, firmware, silicon characterization, and RTL or silicon-fix root-cause analysis.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Benefits
- Relocation is provided.
- The role is onsite in San Diego, Kent, WA, or Austin, TX; a temporary remote exception is approved while the San Diego and Austin sites are being developed.
- Travel is expected up to 20% of the time.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, a 401(k) company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options are available to regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Paid time off is up to four weeks per year based on scheduled hours, plus up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- A technical assessment is included in the interview process.
About Blue Origin
Blue Origin designs and manufactures rocket engines, reusable launch vehicles, and lunar transport systems for commercial and government customers. Its products include the suborbital New Shepard, the in-development New Glenn orbital rocket, BE-4 engines (used on ULA’s Vulcan), and the Blue Moon lander; revenue comes from launch services, engine supply, and space systems contracts, including a NASA Human Landing System award. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is headquartered in Kent, Washington.