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Every hyperscaler, every cloud provider, every AI company is building custom silicon. But they all face the same problem: how do you connect hundreds of chips, deliver clean power at scale, and move terabits of data without melting the package?\nThat's what we solve. TYLsemi builds the chiplet infrastructure IP - the IO, power delivery, and interconnect building blocks - that makes AI/HPC systems actually work at scale.\nThis isn't a nice-to-have. It's the critical path.\nWhy Now\nThe Market Window\nThe semiconductor industry is going through its biggest architectural shift in 40 years:\nMoore's Law is dead. 2nm and beyond delivers marginal performance gains. The future is chiplets, not monolithic dies.\nCustom silicon is now mainstream. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI - they're all designing their own ASICs. The $50B custom silicon market is growing 30% annually.\nIO and power are the bottleneck. Solve hard problems and provide something which is a category in itself.\nTranslation: We're entering the market at exactly the moment when every major AI/HPC player needs what we're building, and their alternatives are disappearing.\nCulture & Team: How We Work\nNo Politics, No Bureaucracy\nThere are no layers, no approval chains, no corporate theater.\nIf you have an idea, we test it. If it works, we ship it.\nNo endless meetings, no PowerPoint presentations to convince middle management.\nRemote-Friendly, Global Team\nUS team: Bay Area preferred, but we hire the best people regardless of location\nIndia team: Building a world-class design center in Bangalore\nMove Fast, Ship Real Products\nWe're not a research project. We have paying customers, committed capital, and aggressive timelines.\nThis is a company, not a lifestyle business. We're building to win.\nWhat We Value\nOwnership mindset. You're not here to execute someone else's roadmap. You're here to define it.\nBias for action. We move fast. Analysis paralysis doesn't fly here.\nDeep technical expertise. This is hard engineering. We need people who've shipped real silicon and debugged real hardware.\nLow ego, high standards. We don't care about titles or politics. We care about results.\nThe Ask\nIf you're reading this, you're probably comfortable. You have a good job at a stable company with all the benefits.\nWe're asking you to walk away from that and bet on us.\nHere's why you should:\nThe market is real. AI infrastructure spending is $200B+ annually and growing 40% YoY. Every hyperscaler needs what we're building.\nThe team has done this before. We've built and exited semiconductor companies at scale. This isn't our first rodeo.\nThe traction is de-risked. We have LOIs, strategic investors, and a clear path to revenue.\nThe work is consequential. You're not optimizing someone's ad click-through rate. You're building the silicon infrastructure that powers AI.\nThis is the bet. Join us and build something that matters.\nOr stay comfortable. No judgment.\nBut if you're the kind of person who wants to take the shot, we'd love to talk.\nREADY TO JOIN?\nAbout the role\nWe are seeking an experienced to own the end-to-end testing, characterization, and failure analysis strategy for complex, next-generation multi-die packages.\nYou will own the complete validation lifecycle across a multi-die architecture-covering high-speed die-to-die (UCIe) interconnects, Power Delivery Networks (PDN/PMIC), Platform Management Controllers (PMC), PCIe/CXL subsystems.\nAdditionally, you will apply statistical analysis and machine learning to test data-driving outlier detection, bench-to-ATE correlation, and predictive telemetry signals-without treating ML models as a substitute for true physical root-cause analysis.\nWhat you’ll do\nTest content and automation\nTest Plan Ownership: Define development test strategies, coverage targets, content architecture, and strict traceability from architectural requirements to validation evidence.\nBare-Metal & C/Python Test Content: Write low-level C and Python test suites-including bare-metal exercisers, traffic generators, stress patterns, and custom firmware drivers/hooks.\nScalable Automation & HIL: Build robust test frameworks featuring instrument control, automated sequencing, structured result capture, and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) CI/CD integration for continuous validation.\nBench-to-ATE Handoff: Develop lab-to-ATE correlation test suites and drive smooth handoffs to Product & Test Engineering (PTE)\nOwn the development test plan: coverage goals, content architecture, and the traceability between a requirement, the test that exercises it, and the evidence it passed.\nCharacterization and margin\nInjection Frameworks: Build minimally invasive fault-injection hardware/software infrastructure that perturbs target datapaths without destabilizing the test setup itself.\nProtocol & Platform Fault Testing: Execute rigorous error campaigns targeting CRC retries, lane degradation/repair, sideband timeouts, PCIe AER, DMA/IOMMU translation faults, and PMIC reset conditions.\nFirmware & Resilience Testing: Validate system firmware error handlers, watchdog timers, and hardware-level fault containment behavior under out-of-spec conditions.\nRequired qualifications\nExperience: 8-10+ years in post-silicon validation, system software testing, silicon bring-up, or development test for complex SoCs / ASICs / GPUs.\nSoftware/Firmware Skills: Advanced proficiency in C and Python for low-level bare-metal test content, hardware abstraction, and automation frameworks.\nSilicon Characterization: Proven experience with Shmoo plotting PVT corner testing, jitter/margin analysis, and guard-band definition.\nFault Injection Expertise: Hands-on experience building or executing error-injection and recovery validation campaigns on production silicon.\nLab Instrumentation: Fluency with oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers (PCIe/CXL), logic analyzers, BERTs, thermal chambers, controllable power supplies, and JTAG debuggers.\nHigh-Speed & System Protocols: Practical, protocol-level understanding of high-speed serial interfaces (PCIe, CXL, or UCIe) and control buses (I2C, SPI, UART, PMBus, SMBus).\nPower Systems: Solid grasp of system power delivery-including sequencing, PMIC telemetry, DVFS, voltage regulation, and protection trip limits.\nData & Tooling: Competency with toolchains (Git, CMake, GCC/Clang, CI pipelines) and statistics/data analysis over test populations.\nEducation: BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.\nAI Tool usage : AI coding and automation tool is must for this role\nCompensation\nThe compensation range shown below represents total target cash compensation and includes both base salary and target bonus. 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