# SoC Validation Engineer

NXP is seeking a highly motivated Digital SoC Validation Engineer to join the Silicon Validation team in Austin, Texas. The successful candidate will be responsible for both pre-silicon emulation and silicon validation, debug, and characterization of complex System-on-Chip (SoC) products used in automotive, industrial, networking, and IoT applications. In this capacity, the successful candidate will be developing test plans, writing/porting test code, and executing/debugging tests on both emulation and silicon. This role requires close collaboration with design, verification, firmware, software, and product engineering teams to ensure high-quality silicon releases. Job Responsibilities: Develop validation plans for digital SoC subsystems and full-chip functionality from design specifications. Develop and/or port validation test content at IP, sub-system, and/or SoC level features/interfaces. Bring-up, execute, and debug validation tests on both pre-silicon emulation and actual silicon. Perform characterization and debug of silicon devices under process, voltage, and temperature variations. Design and develop validation environments, test frameworks, and automation scripts. Debug si

- **Id**: 1269487
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nxp-semiconductors-soc-validation-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T23:30:22Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-25
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T13:38:26Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3323
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Incident Response, Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, RF & Wireless Hardware, Analog & Power Semiconductors

## Company

- **Id**: 17368
- **Name**: NXP Semiconductors
- **Domain**: nxp.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nxp>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 166
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.711
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 45
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 154000
- **Max usd**: 284000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 563

## Technologies

- **Assembly** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **JTAG Debuggers** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T23:30:22Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 141 · green card filings: 66; Filings 12m: 141

## Liveness

- **Score**: 30
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 0.9
- **P active**: 0.607
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 45
- **Reasons**: conf:93, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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