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As a key member of our engineering team, you will play a critical role in enabling first silicon, driving silicon characterization, and ensuring product readiness for customer deployment and high-volume production.\nThis is a highly visible technical leadership role within a fast-paced startup where you will work closely with Architecture, RTL Design, Firmware, Systems, Product Engineering, and customers to solve complex silicon challenges. You will have the opportunity to influence validation strategy, define best practices, and help build our validation infrastructure from the ground up.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead post-silicon validation and characterization of complex ASICs and SoCs from first silicon through production release.\nDevelop comprehensive validation plans covering functionality, performance, interoperability, compliance, stress testing, corner cases, and reliability.\nEnable first silicon bring-up using JTAG, scan, embedded debug features, and board-level diagnostics.\nValidate high-speed interfaces including PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, CXL, SPI, I²C, MDIO, and other industry-standard protocols.\nUtilize advanced lab equipment including high-bandwidth oscilloscopes, BERTs, protocol analyzers, Ethernet traffic generators, network analyzers, logic analyzers, and power measurement equipment.\nDebug complex hardware, firmware, RTL, and system-level issues while working closely with cross-functional engineering teams to identify root cause and drive timely resolution.\nDevelop scalable Python-based automation frameworks for test execution, regression, silicon characterization, data analysis, and reporting.\nValidate firmware, bootloaders, device drivers, and hardware/software interfaces across multiple platforms.\nCharacterize silicon performance, power, thermal behavior, margins, and compliance against architectural specifications.\nLead debug reviews and provide technical direction for validation methodology, infrastructure, and best practices.\nSupport early customer engagements by reproducing and resolving system-level issues and collaborating with applications engineering.\nDocument validation results, silicon characterization data, debug findings, and production readiness reports.\nWhat You'll Bring\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.\n8+ years of hands-on post-silicon validation, DVT, or silicon bring-up experience with complex ASICs or SoCs.\nProven experience bringing first silicon to production in networking, communications, data center, AI, or high-performance computing products.\nStrong understanding of silicon debug methodologies and structured root-cause analysis.\nExtensive experience using laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, BERTs, protocol analyzers, network analyzers, logic analyzers, and related validation tools.\nStrong knowledge of one or more high-speed protocols including PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, CXL, USB, SPI, I²C, or similar interfaces.\nStrong Python programming skills for automation, regression development, and data analysis.\nExperience validating firmware, embedded software, drivers, and hardware/software interfaces.\nAbility to interpret schematics, understand board design, power sequencing, signal integrity, and hardware debug.\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively across Architecture, Design, Firmware, Systems, Product Engineering, Manufacturing, and Customer Engineering teams.\nComfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities evolve quickly and every team member has significant technical ownership.\nAbility to work onsite at our Irvine, California headquarters.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience validating coherent optical DSPs, networking ASICs, Ethernet switch silicon, AI accelerators, GPUs, storage controllers, or high-speed communications devices.\nStrong knowledge of Ethernet, PCIe, OIF, IEEE, or related compliance specifications.\nExperience with PIPE, PCS, PMA, MAC, PHY, or other physical and protocol layers of high-speed interfaces.\nExperience building scalable validation automation, regression systems, dashboards, and data pipelines.\nFamiliarity with customer platform validation and hyperscale qualification processes.\nExperience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives across multiple engineering disciplines.\nWhy Celero\nAt Celero, you'll help develop the next generation of coherent DSP technology enabling AI infrastructure and hyperscale networking. 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