Hardware Systems Engineer, Silicon

Meta - Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Sunnyvale, CA

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About the position

Meta is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineer to join the Release to Production (RTP) team, responsible for the hardware lifecycle of all Meta servers. This role involves hands-on system and hardware debugging, stress testing, and ensuring production-ready system monitoring. The RTP Silicon squad focuses on delivering scalable and reliable custom ASIC solutions to meet data center needs, requiring a systems-based approach to silicon bring-up and validation.

Responsibilities

• Work with end users to understand system use cases to guide validation.
• Ensure tight loops between hardware qualification and final application use models.
• Focus on volume and velocity of qualifications for rapid production ramp-up.
• Engage in all aspects of silicon productization from architecture and design inputs to post-silicon characterization.
• Support the architecture team with insights from performance and power characterization.
• Collaborate with the verification team to enable comprehensive pre and post-silicon test plans.
• Write tests, create bare metal operating systems, and enable frameworks for scalable testing.
• Conduct extensive functional and electrical characterization over various conditions.
• Build and maintain extensive lab automation.

Requirements

• BS or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience in hands-on SW/FW/HW engineering for datacenter environments or similar.
• 6+ years of experience with troubleshooting analytics of server/systems architecture and components.
• 6+ years of experience in developing test specifications, procedures, and debug guides.
• 6+ years of experience with modules/domains such as PCIe, Networking, Flash, Memory, CPU, GPU, DRAM.

Nice-to-haves

• 4+ years of experience in ASIC Design, Development or Validation.
• Experience in integrating lab tools for automated workflows.
• 4+ years of experience with Linux systems and server systems management.
• 4+ years of experience with modules/domains like Serdes, characterization, emulation, logic design.
• 3+ years of experience with embedded systems' architecture and performance optimization.
• Experience with debugging tools for systems-on-chip (SoCs).
• Knowledge of common bus protocols such as I2C, SPI, USB, and/or PCIe.
• Experience with Tool Chains: VCS, Palladium, Protium, Zebu, Veloce, Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities
• Employee discount programs