Pay Range: $42.30hr - $47.30hr

Job Overview:

Our client is looking for a lead systems integration engineer to provide thought leadership and subject matter expertise to a growing team. As a key contributor, the successful candidate will have a strong technical background to contribute to all aspects of the post-silicon development process. The organization is seeking an energetic, energetic, experienced IP Systems Engineer to drive the planning, pre-silicon execution, validation, silicon bring-up and debug of processor and graphics based systems while working closely with internal teams to meet product development milestones.

This role specifically focuses on driving the planning, validation, silicon bring-up and debug of video encode/decode and display driver IP and related systems.

Candidate Profile:

The successful candidate is a highly motivated hands-on leader with a strong development background, problem solving mentality, excellent communication skills, ability to prioritize tasks along with willingness to learn and adapt. Excellent teamwork skills and capability to lead a highly technical team is crucial.

Key Responsibilities:

- Participate in systems design development throughout entire product lifecycle, from pre-silicon and emulation through post-silicon and software integration.
- Lead technical presentations demonstrating a good understanding of hardware architecture and expertise in systems design.
- Collaborate with Design, Software, Tools and other teams to drive the definition of testing and debug methodologies to provide the best possible coverage and customer experience for the IP.




- Work with Program Leadership team to define the end to end plan and highlight possible risk areas and address concerns during planning.
- Be a leader and mentor to the operation team; be hands-on and lead by example.
- Isolation and debug of issues found in Graphics IP during pre-silicon, bring-up, validation, and production phases of products.
- Proactively support team culture that fosters knowledge sharing, excellence, and collaboration.
- Defining and executing validation strategies, enablement of features and unit test plans.
- Publishing and aligning test plan requirements and dependencies.
- Working closely with supporting teams such as design, diagnostics, driver, and project leadership.
- Lead cross-functional technical discussions to drive root cause identification and resolution on technical issues.
- Driving and participating in technical innovations to enhance validation capabilities including tool and script developments, technical and methodology enhancements.

Requirements:

- In-depth knowledge of SOC architecture and concepts.
- In-depth knowledge of hardware encode/decode and display driver hardware IP.
- In-depth knowledge of Graphics hardware pipeline.
- Experience with graphics engines and rendering software pipelines.
- Experience with FPGA and other hardware emulation platforms for pre-silicon debug.
- Strong understanding of BIOS, OS, and driver-level interactions and common failure points.




- Good understanding of Boot Flows/Sequences.
- Strong programming/scripting skills (e.g., Python, C/C++, Ruby).
- Experience with IP/System level bring-up, SOC debug techniques and methodologies.
- Experience with common lab equipment, computer hardware, and networks.
- Led process improvement initiatives to improve engineering quality.
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.
- Knowledge of standard power management features and use-cases.

Preferred Experience:

- 2-4 years of relevant experience in pre and post-silicon validation of the relevant IP and 3-6 years experience in semiconductor industry.
- Personal passion for computer gaming and driving game performance goals.
- Demonstrated ability to grasp new technical concepts quickly.
- Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to details.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-starter, strong collaborator, and able to independently drive tasks to completion.
- Solid organizational skills and ability to handle multiple issues at the same time.

Assets:

- Experience in pre-silicon emulation and debug.
- Knowledge of Graphics IP power management features.

Education:

Bachelor, Master's degree in Electrical Computer Engineering, or related degrees.

Target Skills:

- Video encode/decode hardware validation.
- Display driver hardware pipeline.
- Knowledge of GPU hardware architecture.
- Knowledge of graphics rendering pipeline.
- Familiarity with power management and power states.
- Isolation and debug of issues found in Display IP during pre-silicon, bring-up, validation, and production phases.

📌 Validation Engineer 2 (Markham)
🏢 Cynet Systems
📍 Markham