ASIC Engineer, Architecture Infrastructure

As a ASIC Engineer on the Hardware Testing Infrastructure team at Meta, you will be a key player in defining the testing approach, creating the necessary resources, and fostering a culture of quality within our ASIC team. Your primary focus will be on hands-on software development, automation, and ensuring that our ASIC developers have the tools and infrastructure needed to excel in their roles.

ASIC Engineer, Architecture Infrastructure Responsibilities:

• Communicate your innovative architectural solutions with your peers and leadership, while mentoring members of the architecture team.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams working on RTL design, Design Verification, Firmware/Software development, Pre-Post silicon validation and Program Management to deliver first pass functional silicon on an aggressive schedule.
• Define and implement the testing approach for custom chips designed by our ASIC team.
• Develop and maintain testing infrastructure, including disk space and compute capacity management.
• Implement monitoring, reporting, and metrics collection to track the quality, performance, and utilization of testing infrastructure.
• Collaborate with ASIC developers to automate testing and ensure continuous integration and delivery.
• Drive quality, evidence-driven debugging/triage, root cause analysis, and test-driven development within the team.
• Utilize Python, Jinja2/Templating engines, Make/CMake, Bazel/Blaze/Buck build tools, Git/Mercurial, YAML, JSON, and other relevant technologies for software development.
• Develop and maintain automated dashboards that provide real-time visibility into the team's progress, including work remaining, work completed, change fail rate, lead time for changes, time to recover test failures, and other key performance metrics, ensuring transparency and accountability across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with embedded software/firmware development with compilers/linkers including at the assembly level.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with build tools like Make/CMake, Bazel/Blaze/Buck.
• Knowledge of version control systems such as Git/Mercurial.
• Familiarity with YAML and JSON for configuration and data exchange.
• Experience in evidence-driven debugging, root cause analysis, and test-driven development.
• Proficiency in C++: experience in developing software components for hardware modeling and simulation.
• Proficiency in configuring, extending, and optimizing these simulators for specific testing scenarios is a valuable skill.
• Familiarity with hardware modeling concepts, including the experience to work with hardware description languages.
• Experience in debuggers for development/debug.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of verilog tools and compilation flows is advantageous.
• Familiarity with popular AI frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, Caffe2, and others is a plus.
• Understanding the intricacies of hardware design and modeling.
• Experience with hardware simulators such as Imperas and QEMU.

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

$173,000/year to $249,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.