Post-Silicon Validation Engineer at Voltai (Palo Alto, CA)Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.

Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), the inventors of IC3 and the Murphi verification system, CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.

You'll make sure first silicon works. You'll own bring-up and validation on real silicon programs with leading semiconductor companies while helping Voltai's AI learn from what happens after tapeout.

• Plan and execute post-silicon bring-up and validation for SoCs and IP.
• Develop validation content, test plans, and automated test infrastructure.
• Debug silicon failures across logic, timing, power, and system interactions.
• Correlate silicon results with pre-silicon simulation, emulation, and formal results.
• Work with design, DFT, and product engineering teams to drive root cause and fixes.
• Capture silicon learnings that feed back into Voltai's models and verification flows.

• 5+ years of post-silicon validation or bring-up experience.
• Hands-on lab experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, and debug tools.
• Strong Python and C/C++ for test automation.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces (PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, or similar).
• Systematic debug skills across hardware and software.

Bonus Points

• Experience with silicon characterization and yield.
• Background in pre-silicon verification.
• Interest in AI-assisted design tools.