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The Near-Memory Compute System Validation Engineer joins the System Validation & Emulation team to ensure end-to-end silicon quality across pre- and post-silicon phases. This role focuses on content quality and system-level validation enablement for premium mobile, data center, and AI accelerator platforms. You will develop AI, inference, and data-intensive bare-metal workloads to stress memory and compute subsystems while performing root-cause analysis on complex hardware and software issues involving SoC architecture, firmware, drivers, interconnects, and power domains. Required skills include proficiency in C/C++, Python, and scripting, alongside a deep understanding of memory hierarchy, caches, and coherency. You will utilize JTAG, kernel debuggers, and lab instrumentation to solve problems in high-bandwidth memory, processing-in-memory, and near-memory compute architectures to ensure high-quality silicon productization.
DDR Memory Tuning
Mixed Signal
Digital Design
Embedded Systems
Signal Integrity
Schematic Capture
Board Design
C
C++
Java
Python
Perl
Linux
Windows OS
Oscilloscopes
High-Performance Computing
Firmware