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Sr Silicon Bring-Up and Integration Engineer Verified today

Blue Origin · 3 Locations · Production · first seen 2026-09-30
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About the role

As a Sr Silicon Bring-Up and Integration Engineer, you will be a key hands-on member of the team responsible for bringing complex custom SoCs and ASICs from pre-silicon development through physical silicon bring-up, validation, and system integration.

You will develop low-level C/C++ software, diagnostics, and Python-based test infrastructure used to configure, control, exercise, and validate custom silicon. You will work closely with ASIC design, verification, firmware, board, RF/DSP, and system engineering teams to support first-silicon bring-up, characterize device behavior, and debug complex hardware/software integration issues.

This role is highly technical and hands-on and requires the ability to work across silicon hardware, low-level software, lab instrumentation, and system-level debugging.

Responsibilities

  • Perform first-silicon power-on, initialization, configuration, functional bring-up, and debugging of custom SoCs and ASICs
  • Develop C/C++ software, firmware, diagnostics, and Python-based test infrastructure for silicon configuration, control, and validation
  • Develop bring-up software, test sequences, register-access utilities, diagnostics, and validation capabilities prior to silicon availability using simulation, emulation, FPGA prototypes, or other pre-silicon platforms
  • Integrate and debug low-level software and firmware with silicon hardware, including initialization sequences, clocks, resets, memory interfaces, peripherals, data paths, and high-speed interfaces
  • Develop and execute functional, performance, stress, and corner-condition tests to validate silicon behavior against design and system requirements
  • Support characterization across voltage, temperature, frequency, operating modes, and silicon process variation
  • Investigate and root-cause failures spanning silicon hardware, RTL, firmware/software, boards, clocks, power, interfaces, and system-level behavior
  • Develop automated test infrastructure for DUT configuration, lab instrumentation, data collection, regression testing, and analysis
  • Bring up and debug low-speed and high-speed interfaces such as JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, DDR/LPDDR, and custom chip-to-chip interfaces
  • Define requirements for evaluation boards, fixtures, sockets, instrumentation, and debug capabilities required for silicon bring-up and validation
  • Collaborate with ASIC architecture/design, verification, firmware/software, RF/DSP, board, system, manufacturing, and test teams to resolve silicon integration issues
  • Support issues from initial engineering samples through characterization, validation, and production readiness

Minimum Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC bring-up, post-silicon validation, embedded systems, silicon integration, or closely related fields
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
  • Hands-on experience with ASIC or SoC bring-up, post-silicon validation, or low-level hardware/software integration
  • Strong C/C++ programming experience for low-level hardware control, embedded software, firmware, or silicon diagnostics
  • Strong Python or equivalent scripting experience for test automation, instrumentation, and data analysis
  • Strong understanding of SoC architecture, memory-mapped registers, interrupts, DMA, clock/reset architecture, memory systems, and hardware/software interfaces
  • Experience with low-level interfaces and debug protocols such as JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, or DDR/LPDDR
  • Hands-on experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum/signal analyzers, power supplies, and other silicon bring-up and validation equipment
  • Demonstrated ability to debug complex problems spanning hardware, firmware/software, and system boundaries
  • Ability to read schematics, silicon specifications, register maps, timing diagrams, and hardware design documentation
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with first-silicon bring-up of complex custom ASICs or SoCs
  • Experience developing post-silicon validation frameworks, diagnostics, and automated regression environments
  • Experience debugging high-speed SerDes, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, or custom chip-to-chip interfaces
  • Experience with mixed-signal SoCs containing ADCs, DACs, PLLs, clocking, RF, or other analog/mixed-signal subsystems
  • Understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, clocking, reset sequencing, and board-level effects on silicon operation
  • Familiarity with Linux device drivers, embedded RTOS environments, boot flows, and low-level firmware
  • Experience with silicon characterization across voltage, temperature, frequency, and process corners
  • Experience supporting root-cause analysis and validating RTL, firmware, software, or silicon fixes

Compensation

Base pay range for CA and WA applicants: $230,398.00 to $322,556.85. Other site ranges may differ.

Work Details

This role is based onsite in San Diego, Kent WA, or Austin TX. A temporary remote work exception is approved while the San Diego and Austin sites are being developed. Relocation is provided. Travel is expected up to 20% of the time. Interviews will include a technical assessment.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short and long-term disability
  • 401(k) with company match up to 5%
  • Education Support Program
  • Stock options for all regular employees working at least 20 hours per week
  • Paid time off up to four weeks per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays
  • Performance-based bonuses and other benefits dependent on role type and job level