Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Develop and execute comprehensive validation plans for multimedia hardware and software features across multiple product platforms.
Validate multimedia subsystems including camera, imaging pipelines, computer vision, and AI-enabled multimedia functions.
Design, develop, and automate test frameworks, validation tools, diagnostics, and regression suites.
Investigate functional, performance, power, reliability, and quality issues; identify root causes and drive resolution across cross-functional teams.
Analyze system logs, protocol captures, performance metrics, and silicon debug data.
Collaborate with design verification, firmware, software, system architecture, and product teams during all phases of the product lifecycle.
Support silicon bring-up, platform integration, feature characterization, and customer issue investigations.
Participate in technical reviews, design discussions, debug triage meetings, and product readiness assessments.
Debug hardware, firmware, driver, and system-level issues using JTAG debuggers, trace tools, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other laboratory equipment.
Minimum Skills
2+ years of industry experience in validation, verification, system integration, multimedia software, firmware, or related engineering fields.
Knowledge with pre-silicon or post-silicon validation, hardware bring-up, system integration, or low-level hardware/software debug.
Knowledge in developing and executing validation or verification test plans.
Programming and scripting skills in Python, C/C++, Bash/Shell
Familiarity with Multimedia Engines/Technology (Camera & Image Processing, Video Compression, Compute Vision)
Experience with automated testing and regression environments.
Familiarity with High-Speed interfaces & Signal Integrity
Hands-on experience using signal-generators, oscilloscopes, high-bandwidth probes, logic analyzers.
Exposure to AI/ML technologies, AI agents and agentic workflows that assist with engineering tasks (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar productivity assistants) and the ability to use them responsibly to improve engineering efficiency
Ability to work independently, take ownership of defined technical assignments, and collaborate effectively across geographically distributed engineering teams
Preferred Skills
Familiarity with in-circuit emulation tools, ARM-based System-On-Chip, validation experience related to board bring-up and low-level software and hardware issues debug, JTAG, compilers, linkers, scatter-files
Familiarity with embedded systems, low-level software/device drivers, Version-Control Tools, Linux, RTOS, GIT or similar source-control systems
Understanding of Camera ISP pipelines, CAM-sensor integration, computer vision, or AI-assisted multimedia technologies
Understanding of performance validation, power characterization, stress testing, latency, throughput, memory bandwidth, thermal constraints.
Familiarity with FPGA prototyping, hardware emulation, simulation acceleration, Verilog, SystemVerilog, hardware design concepts, RTL simulation, schematics, or digital IC architecture.
Familiarity with DFT/DFD, ATE/ATPG, SLT, high-volume validation, RMA debug, or production-screening concepts.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
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- Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
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- PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
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