53 Process Validation jobs in Portland

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position.

The Battery Validation Engineer will be responsible for enabling innovation through quick testing and characterization of battery components and systems. This individual will define test plans, execute them safely, and report results in order to successfully validate Ford’s next generation of EV batteries.

What you'll do.

• Plan, coordinate, and execute battery pack validation tests covering various categories including performance, durability, and abuse

• Author test scripts for equipment including cyclers, chambers, chillers, and DAQ systems

• Own data storage and visualization

• Analyze test data and generate test reports, evaluating compliance with requirements and identifying issues or opportunities for improvement

• Work alongside systems engineers to define requirements

• Work alongside cell engineers to define test profiles and correlate cell and pack results

• Work alongside prototyping and logistics teams to coordinate sample assembly and delivery

• Work cross-functionally across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service to communicate test results and provide feedback on battery design and integration

• Assist battery part owners to develop component-level tests

• Setup data acquisition systems and specialized measurement equipment as needed

• Work with fabrication team as needed to design and build custom fixtures

• Manage external vendors and partners for additional testing capabilities

You'll have…

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field 

• 5+ years of experience in battery testing and validation 

• Experience with battery test equipment, instrumentation, and data acquisition systems 

• Knowledge of battery chemistry, physics, and safety standards 

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment 

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and project management skills 

• Knowledge of statistical analysis and design-of-experiment 

• Experience in test fixture design and fabrication; 3-D CAD experience preferred 

• Experience in structural, electrical, thermal, and mechanical systems 

• Familiarity with US and international battery safety requirements/regulations 

• Hands-on experience in HV battery system abuse testing 

• Ability to travel to external test labs as needed

Even better, you may have…

• Master's degree in engineering

• Hands-on experience building and launching automotive products

• Experience in configuration, development and maintenance of automated test systems

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Experience using Confluence, Jira, Jama, or other project management tools

• An eagerness to work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high performing team

• A system approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 8.

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This position is a range of salary grades 5-8 .

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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Onsite work of up to four days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location. #LI-Hybrid #LI-HA1

Requisition ID : 48404

SerDes System Validation Engineer
**Beaverton, Oregon, United States**
**Hardware**
**Summary**
Posted: **Mar 12, 2025**
Role Number: **200594667**
System validation of mixed-signal SerDes IP
In this highly visible role, you will actively work within Analog-Mixed/Signal design team and participate in validation and debug of embedded circuits; collaborating with many disciplines to enable the world's premiere products. You will closely work with a talented group of Analog-Mixed/Signal designers working diligently to deliver hard IPs to Apple's products while exceeding the highest expectations of quality, innovation and efficiency.
At Apple, we work every single day to craft products that enrich people's lives. And in doing so face great challenges as SOC/PHY design complexity.
If you have strong fundamentals and a track record of tackling technical challenges.
If you are inspired by your curiosity and eagerness to learn new skills and to maximize the value and impact of your work.
If you like to be tuned to the bigger-picture while diving deeply into the details to innovate and solve problems.
If you love working with people and diverse teams to accomplish great things.
If you like fire-fighting when challenges occur while keeping a phenomenal team spirit.
If you care about society and have demonstrated leadership skills through commitment to great causes.
We have an opportunity for a forward-thinking and especially hardworking system validation engineer with strong background in high speed serial links. As a member of our dynamic team, you will have the rare and rewarding opportunity to work on upcoming products that will surprise and delight millions of Apple's customers everyday. And all of this while enjoying a great culture where you own your career.
**Description**
The ideal candidate should have experience in high-speed serial links with expertise in the following:
Very knowledgeable about and experienced with common high-speed SerDes protocols (e.g., PCIe, USB, UCIe, OIF, etc.)
Very knowledgeable in system bring-up of high-speed serial links, lab testing, and defining equipment needs
Very knowledgeable in scripting (e.g. python, C, Matlab) for automation of validation efforts. Experience with system level S/W setup is a plus
Experience in mixed-signal circuit pre-silicon verification and ability to closely work with circuit design team
Knowledge of DFT to aid in the system validation
Experience in leading mixed-signal SerDes system validation
Experience with silicon bring-up, debug and production ramp
Knowledge of SerDes design and architecture including CDR and equalization
Knowledge of with Tx/Rx equalization techniques and adaptation
Knowledge of link jitter budget for high-speed serial links and key block level requirements
Knowledge of ADC based links and equalization techniques
Familiarity with PCB design and specifications
Strong communication, teamwork and problem solving skills
Proven track record of delivering under difficult debug and validation scenarios
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ Bachelors with 10+ years relevant experience
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Able to think outside of the box and come up with creative solutions for system validation
+ Knowledge of system level considerations e.g. ESD requirements
+ Ownership of SerDes system bring-up, validation and debug. This will involve a SerDes bring up in system environment, verifying basic operations, analyzing robustness and margins in system.
+ Work with design teams to understand the architecture and define DFT needs to help enhance testability and first time silicon success.
+ Be involved in mixed-signal verification tasks to better understand the SerDes operation and interaction with higher level control logic.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant ( .
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant ( .
Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.
Apple participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law.Learn more about the E-Verify program ( .
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Software Engineer- SoC Level Validation Engineer
**Beaverton, Oregon, United States**
**Hardware**
**Summary**
Posted: **Oct 02, 2024**
Role Number: **200570960**
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you'll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you'll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple's devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. We have a critical impact on getting high quality functional products to millions of customers quickly, and we are hiring all levels from junior to senior roles.
What happens when you run almost everything on an SoC all at once while powering down blocks, hammering new features, and running a complex suite of algorithms? You find bugs. That's exactly what we do. We break Apple Silicon with our bare metal system level SW suite that runs mostly post-silicon, leverages pre-silicon and finds corner-case hardware bugs. Join our team to uphold the high quality of Apple Silicon.
**Description**
In this role, you will:
Write SoC and CPU directed and random tests
Debug issues pre-silicon or post-silicon
Develop and maintain system-level SW platform
Lead SW development and execution plans of SoC projects
Work with designers and architects to accomplish validation goals
Engaging with other teams at Apple to develop validation strategies based on product needs
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's degree in software engineering or related field with 10 years of experience.
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ SOC and CPU knowledge
+ Micro-architecture
+ Memory hierarchy
+ Interrupt and DMA
+ Clock and Power Gating.
+ System level understanding.
+ Experience with SoC bringup
+ Experienced C/C++ and Assembly language programmer
+ Expertise in Embedded programming with an understanding of hardware-software interfaces
+ Knowledge of Hardware and Software debug tools and methods
+ Experience with scopes is a plus
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant ( .
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant ( .
Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.
Apple participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law.Learn more about the E-Verify program ( .
Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more .
Apple is a drug-free workplace. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more .
Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. If you're applying for a position in San Francisco, review the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance guidelines applicable in your area.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Software Engineer- SoC Level Validation Engineer
**Beaverton, Oregon, United States**
**Hardware**
**Summary**
Posted: **Oct 02, 2024**
Role Number: **200570937**
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you'll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you'll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple's devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. We have a critical impact on getting high quality functional products to millions of customers quickly, and we are hiring all levels from junior to senior roles.
What happens when you run almost everything on an SoC all at once while powering down blocks, hammering new features, and running a complex suite of algorithms? You find bugs. That's exactly what we do. We break Apple Silicon with our bare metal system level SW suite that runs mostly post-silicon, leverages pre-silicon and finds corner-case hardware bugs. Join our team to uphold the high quality of Apple Silicon.
**Description**
In this role, you will:
- Develop SoC and CPU directed and random tests
- Debug issues pre-silicon or post-silicon
- Develop and maintain system-level SW platform.
- Work with designers and architects to accomplish validation goals
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ A minimum of a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field.
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ SOC and CPU knowledge
+ Memory hierarchy
+ Interrupt and DMA
+ Clock and Power Gating.
+ Voltage and Frequency controls
+ C/C++ and Assembly language programming
+ Experience with embedded programming with an understanding of hardware-software interfaces
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant ( .
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant ( .
Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.
Apple participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law.Learn more about the E-Verify program ( .
Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more .
Apple is a drug-free workplace. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more .
Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. If you're applying for a position in San Francisco, review the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance guidelines applicable in your area.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.
The Silicon Computing development team is currently seeking a Senior Systems on Chip Hardware (Digital, Analog or Power and Performance) Validation Engineer to join the post-silicon validation team, which encompasses functional, electrical, and power/performance aspects. This team is responsible for working on numerous projects within Microsoft, focusing on the development of custom silicon for a diverse range of systems. Their ultimate goal is to deliver cutting-edge and custom System-on-Chip designs capable of efficiently performing complex and high-performance functions.
We are looking for a **Senior SoC HW (Analog/Functional) Validation Engineer** to join the team.
**Responsibilities**
+ Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas:
+ IO electrical/analog
+ Functional IO interfaces
+ Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities
+ Become an expert in high-speed IO interfaces (e.g., PCI, CXL), including:
+ Their architecture and implementation
+ Interaction with other SoC components, the platform, and software
+ Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers
+ Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies
+ Including debug board and hardware/software requirements
+ Write and implement test plans using:
+ Validation principles and techniques
+ Test content, scripts, tools, and collateral
+ Execute test content in post-silicon environment; triage and debug failures
+ Apply a growth mindset to learn and adapt in a dynamic environment
+ Collaborate with partners to improve design, validation plans, and methodology
+ Aim to detect bugs earlier, more reliably, and efficiently
+ Embrace a One Microsoft approach by collaborating with:
+ Architects, logic designers, verification engineers
+ Other post-silicon validators, IP and tool providers
+ Deliver high-quality results on schedule to satisfy customer expectations
+ Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity
+ Contribute to pre-silicon verification planning, testing, and debugging in your area
**Qualifications**
**Required/minimum qualifications**
+ Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
+ 4+ years of experience in SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality and writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++.
**Other Requirements:**
+ Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
**Additional Preferred Requirements:**
+ Proficient communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills, with the ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams
+ Experience in verification, logic development, analog validation, or validation tools as part of a CPU, SoC, and/or IP development team
+ Leadership skills
+ Demonstrated validation expertise in one or more of the following areas:
+ Electrical validation: SerDes, IO, high-speed interconnects, analog circuits
+ Power and performance validation
+ Automation, content creation, or tools/scripts development
+ Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation content for Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO, to run on both bare-metal and OS environments
+ Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation and debug activities, including:
+ Maximum power analysis
+ Current transient measurements
+ Register dumps
+ Understanding of board-level schematics
+ Understanding of system-level software and firmware
+ Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or FPGA
+ Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts
Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $34,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD 158,400 - 258,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: will accept applications for the role until July 25th, 2025.
#azurehwjobs #SCHIE #microsoftpdx #MicrosoftSiliconValidation #AHSI
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**Company:**
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
**Job Area:**
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > CPU Engineering
**General Summary:**
As a "CPU Silicon Bring up and Validation Engineer" you would be part of the CPU Silicon Bringup Team, within the CPU team.
The charter for CPU Silicon Bringup team would be to prepare for and support bring up of every SoC using the Custom CPUs - from first Silicon through to productization.
+ **Roles and Responsibilities:**
+ Work with CPU design and verification teams to develop CPU bring up and validation test plans.
+ Prepare for CPU bring up through pre-work on emulation and FPGA platforms.
+ Work with SOC bring up teams, software teams to plan CPU bring up.
+ Triage and debug failures on Silicon.
+ Develop test contents and testing strategies to assist validation of CPU on silicon.
+ Work with CPU verification teams to reproduce silicon fails on emulators and FPGAs.
+ Work with design team to suggest, architect new debug features to improve future CPU bringup's.
+ **Minimum Requirements:**
+ BA/BS degree in CS/EE with 5+ years' experience.
+ 3+ Experience in Silicon Validation and bring up.
+ Implementation of assembly, C/C++ language embedded firmware
+ Experience with software tool chain including assemblers, C compilers, Makefiles, and source code control tools.
+ **Preferred Requirements:**
+ Strong understanding of micro-processor architecture.
+ Strong understanding of power management, physical design concepts.
+ Experience in Silicon bring up and validation of CPU features.
+ Experience in debug of functional, power, performance, physical design issues, speed path debug on silicon.
+ Experience in CPU design and verification.
+ Experience in Test development for validation of CPU features on Silicon.
+ Experience in development of test vectors for tester bring up.
Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here ( . Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).
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**EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.**
Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.
**Pay range** **and Other Compensation & Benefits** **:**
$139,000.00 - $234,500.00
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Silicon Validation Tools Engineer

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Apr 09, 2025

Role Number: 200598952

At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, inquisitive people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product.

Great products require great software, and great software requires great hardware. Ensuring great hardware of this complexity requires advanced tools and processes of equal complexity. In this role, you'll help to ensure that no hardware bug ever gets in the way of delight in using Apple products. You'll work with and in support of teams across Apple and across various disciplines to create innovative tools and processes to generate, categorize, analyze, and resolve bugs in silicon and pre-silicon designs.

Description

Your role is to make validation easier, faster, and more fun, to ensure high-quality silicon and products. Primarily, your role is to build tools that increase the level of abstraction validation engineers use to interact with hardware, and with testing processes. This role requires creative abstraction of both design specifications and data extracted from systems to create innovative tools for control, visualization, and analysis of Apple products. These tools can include anything from low-level JTAG interaction with electrical IPs, to diagnosis of test results across an entire lab of tests. You will work closely with engineers across groups including validation, hardware, software, design, and architecture to comprehend current processes and find impactful ways into the adjacent and far possible.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced level of Python programming

• Familiarity with computer / system / SoC architecture

• Imagination for building complex processes and making useful interactive user experiences a joy to use

• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Experience with revision control systems including at least git.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant ( .

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant ( .

Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.

Apple participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law.Learn more about the E-Verify program ( .

Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more .

Apple is a drug-free workplace. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more .

Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. If you're applying for a position in San Francisco, review the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance guidelines applicable in your area.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Silicon Validation Tools Engineer
**Beaverton, Oregon, United States**
**Hardware**
**Summary**
Posted: **Apr 09, 2025**
Role Number: **200598952**
At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, inquisitive people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product.
Great products require great software, and great software requires great hardware. Ensuring great hardware of this complexity requires advanced tools and processes of equal complexity. In this role, you'll help to ensure that no hardware bug ever gets in the way of delight in using Apple products. You'll work with and in support of teams across Apple and across various disciplines to create innovative tools and processes to generate, categorize, analyze, and resolve bugs in silicon and pre-silicon designs.
**Description**
Your role is to make validation easier, faster, and more fun, to ensure high-quality silicon and products. Primarily, your role is to build tools that increase the level of abstraction validation engineers use to interact with hardware, and with testing processes. This role requires creative abstraction of both design specifications and data extracted from systems to create innovative tools for control, visualization, and analysis of Apple products. These tools can include anything from low-level JTAG interaction with electrical IPs, to diagnosis of test results across an entire lab of tests. You will work closely with engineers across groups including validation, hardware, software, design, and architecture to comprehend current processes and find impactful ways into the adjacent and far possible.
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience.
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Advanced level of Python programming
+ Familiarity with computer / system / SoC architecture
+ Imagination for building complex processes and making useful interactive user experiences a joy to use
+ Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
+ Strong verbal and written communication skills
+ Experience with revision control systems including at least git.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant ( .
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant ( .
Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.
Apple participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law.Learn more about the E-Verify program ( .
Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more .
Apple is a drug-free workplace. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more .
Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. If you're applying for a position in San Francisco, review the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance guidelines applicable in your area.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Silicon Validation Software Engineer - High Speed IO Validation
**Beaverton, Oregon, United States**
**Hardware**
**Summary**
Posted: **Mar 18, 2025**
Role Number: **200575114**
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you'll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC).
You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you'll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple's devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. We have a critical impact on getting high quality functional products to millions of customers quickly, and we are hiring all levels from junior to senior roles.
**Description**
You will be part of the SOC Silicon Validation team doing system level validation developing software to validate high speed IO IP blocks working closely with SiVal, FW, Architecture and Design teams. The activities include but not limited to defining validation plans, bring up, debug SOC issues and coordinating to run tests.
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ A minimum of a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Experience with Embedded system is required
+ Familiar with SoC and System architecture.
+ Knowledge and experience working with board schematics.
+ Experience with using test equipment and analyzers (USB, PCIe, DP, I2C) is required.
+ High knowledge and experience with High Speed interfaces such USB-PD, USB2.0, USB3.0, Thunderbolt 3, USB4.0, PCIE or DP is required.
+ Proven experience in silicon bring-up, debugging, validation, and characterization.
+ In-depth understanding of PHY design, architecture, adaptations, and equalization techniques.
+ Strong hands-on software programming skills with a focus on embedded systems; proficiency in C programming is essential.
+ Skilled in scripting, with a preference for Python, to automate testing and data analysis.
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