ASIC System Level Test Engineer, PhD, University Graduate
Sunnyvale, CA
Minimum qualifications:
- PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Academic, educational, internship, or project experience with product engineering, test engineering, hardware validation, silicon validation.
- Experience with Python programming or Linux/Unix.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with SLT test flow development, test automation, and test deployment actively contributing to technical design and problem-solving.
- Experience implementing secure manufacturing solutions including provisioning, eFuse and programming, life-cycle management, and SoC security.
- Familiarity with SLT test handlers from Advantest, Teradyne, Chroma, or others.
About the job
In this role, you’ll work to shape the future of AI/ML hardware acceleration. You will have an opportunity to drive cutting-edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) technology that powers Google's most demanding AI/ML applications. You’ll be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's TPU. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide, and leverage your design and verification expertise to verify complex digital designs, with a specific focus on TPU architecture and its integration within AI/ML-driven systems.
In this role, you will help build the SoC’s that power these data centers by developing and deploying comprehensive test solutions with Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for New Product Introduction (NPI) and for High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) at wafer fabs and OSATs. This is an opportunity to create silicon and follow it into the field to close the loop back to design and test for the next generations of chips.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.
We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $138,000-$198,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Develop System Level Test (SLT) solutions for custom Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and SoC’s by specifying hardware and integration requirements, driving vendor interactions, developing software frameworks and test modules, and integrating test cases from silicon validation and system software and test teams.
- Partner with data center server and accelerator design teams to realize practical test solutions leveraging system design and test elements.
- Partner with hardware and software teams to evaluate functional device yield and performance across various operating conditions, characterize hardware/software interaction, and develop effective production screens to reduce defective parts per million.
- Integrate test software and hardware solutions with robotic chip handlers, drive bring-up of the fully integrated solution in internal and partner NPI labs, transfer all collaterals needed for HVM at Offshore Assembly and Test (OSAT) facilities, and provide ongoing HVM support.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
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How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.