Technical Lead Engineer — Power Validation & Characterization

Meta's Infrastructure team delivers scalable and reliable custom ASIC solutions to meet Meta's data center needs. Ramping to production and solving data center scaling and deployment challenges requires a systems-based approach to silicon bring-up and validation.

The team works on productization: early architecture and design inputs, pre-silicon validation on emulation platforms, first-silicon bring-up, and post-silicon characterization across process, voltage, and temperature corners. We write tests, build bare-metal environments and reusable frameworks that scale from pre-silicon platforms to large fleets of ASICs in the lab, and we build and maintain extensive lab automation to do it at volume and velocity.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end validation and characterization strategy for Meta custom silicon programs in your domain, from pre-silicon emulation through post-silicon bring-up and PVT characterization
• Define the test plan: measurement and benchmarking methodology, instrumentation, functional and performance coverage, corner coverage across process/voltage/temperature, and pass/fail criteria
• Establish and document best practices for measurement rigor, accuracy, and correlation across bench, emulation, and ATE/production data
• Drive validation of domain feature sets (power or networking) on emulation platforms pre-silicon and on real silicon post-silicon
• Review schematics, power delivery networks, high-speed interface designs, and board/platform configurations with hardware and design teams; provide early design and debuggability inputs
• Write and review automation and analysis code that scales characterization from a single bench to many units in the lab
• Lead debug of complex cross-stack issues — silicon, firmware, driver, board, thermal, and fabric/switch layers — and drive root cause to closure with design, software, hardware, ODM, and vendor partners
• Provide technical guidance and planning for a team of validation engineers; mentor engineers and improve standards for data quality and rigor
• Partner with manufacturing, production, and data center teams to transfer characterization learnings into production screens and fleet health monitoring

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years of relevant industry experience
• Demonstrated hands-on validation and characterization experience on complex ASICs, SoCs, NICs, or high-speed interfaces
• Proven experience with PVT (Process / Voltage / Temperature) characterization
• Ability to read and reason about schematics and either power delivery networks or high-speed interface implementations
• Proficiency in Python for test development, lab automation, and/or data analysis
• Hands-on lab experience with domain-relevant instrumentation Experience building large-scale lab automation frameworks and data pipelines for characterization data
• Familiarity with on-die telemetry, ring-oscillator data, eFuse-based binning, and adaptive voltage scaling
• Experience developing hardware for data center deployment
• Experience taking a custom ASIC from first silicon through high-volume production
• Experience with custom silicon programs
• Hands-on lab experience with domain-relevant instrumentation for Power - SMUs, electronic loads, power analyzers, scopes, current probes, thermal chambers / forced-air and liquid-cooled setups; plus experience with multi-kW systems
• Experience with liquid-cooled and high-TDP (2kW+) accelerator or networking platforms
• Experience working directly with ODMs, test houses, and silicon vendors
• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Experience across both pre-silicon (emulation/FPGA) and post-silicon validation