Technologist Engineer, ASIC Development Engineering (SoC Validation Lead, PCIe Protocol Expertise)

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, architecting, and execution of end-to-end SoC validation strategies and sign-off criteria.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, reviewing test plans and debug approaches.
• Drive pre-silicon and post-silicon bring-up, including board initialization, power-on sequences, and processor boot.
• Validate complex datapath flows and port scenarios across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
• Develop firmware, bare-metal tests, and Hardware Abstraction Layers (HAL) to enable SoC-level validation.
• Build and maintain validation infrastructure, including regression automation and lab equipment integration.
• Debug complex SoC issues across digital logic, firmware, and timing domains using JTAG and trace tools.
• Execute validation on emulation platforms like Palladium to accelerate debug and coverage.

Requirements

• BE or MS degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• 12+ years of experience in SoC pre-silicon and post-silicon validation and bring-up.
• Deep proficiency in C and embedded programming.
• Strong understanding of SoC verification environments, SystemVerilog (SV), and UVM concepts.
• Extensive experience with PCIe and DDR protocols.
• Knowledge of various interfaces including LPDDR, USB, Ethernet, I2C, and SPI.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Perl, TCL, or Bash for automation.

About the Company

Sandisk is a global leader in Flash and advanced memory technologies. We relentlessly innovate to deliver high-performance data storage solutions that power the digital world, from mobile devices to cloud infrastructure. We are committed to an inclusive environment where diversity drives innovation and helps us unlock the full potential of data.