Silicon Validation Engineer, Advanced DRAM

Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle's software stack. To achieve our mission, we architect and create high-performance custom silicon; we develop system-level compute architectures that push the boundaries of performance, power, and latency; and we collaborate closely with many other teammates to ensure we design and optimize hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a multidisciplinary team seeking curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world's highest performance automotive compute platforms.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Hardware Engineering Manager.

You will:

• Perform DDR, LPDDR, HBM, and other advanced DRAM subsystem bring-up, validation, and characterization
• Collaborate with DV and emulation teams in the pre-silicon phase, and create post-silicon test plans
• Characterize and optimize the memory subsystem performance under concurrent and stress workload
• Spearhead the silicon debug efforts related to DRAM controller, PHY, and DRAMs
• Engage and assist in defining the manufacturing tests (BIST, ATE, SLT)

You have:

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience in advanced DRAM memory subsystem
• Hands-on experience in silicon bring-up, functional validation, characterization, and performance optimization related to memory subsystem
• Experience in generating memory stress content or patterns
• Experience in silicon debug involving memory subsystem
• Knowledge in JEDEC spec of DDR/LPDDR/HBM
• Knowledge of SoC architecture, memory subsystem, NoC

We prefer:

• Experience in DRAM firmware, init and training sequence
• Experience in pre-silicon verification and emulation, integrate VIPs in testbench
• Familiar with the lab equipment for bring-up, validation and debug
• Proficiency in at least one of the programming or scripting languages: C/C++, Python