Title: Sr Principal Engineer - Validation

Location: Hyderabad, India

Employment Type: Regular (PERM)

Work Mode: Hybrid

Job Description:

**** is looking for a Sr. Principal Engineer, Validation. to redefine how automotivegrade silicon

quality is built driving firsttimeright silicon, eliminating customer escapes, and setting a new

industry benchmark for validation excellence

Key Responsibilities:

- Define and own the endtoend silicon validation strategy for automotive and HPC SoCs,

from presilicon enablement through postsilicon production release.

- Ensure firsttimeright silicon, robust validation coverage, and zero customer escapes

across all assigned programs.

- Lead global validation teams responsible for silicon bringup, characterization, and

systemlevel validation across multiple concurrent programs.

- Establish and drive a System Use Case Validation Program, harvesting real

customer/OEM and system scenarios and converting them into automated, traceable

validation suites.

- Influence SoC architecture, design, and program decisions through early validation

insights, risk identification, and databacked recommendations.

- Drive shiftleft validation as a measurable engineering program, increasing reuse across

simulation, emulation/FPGA, and silicon to reduce late surprises.

- Own escapeprevention strategy, including robustness testing, fault scenarios, coverage

models, and disciplined validation signoff criteria.

- Build and scale highperforming validation organizations, developing strong technical

leadership (Staff/Principal pipeline) and execution ownership.

- Lead automation, standardization, and infrastructure modernization across validation

labs, board farms, and CI systems.

- Establish validation methodologies, quality benchmarks, metrics, and dashboards aligned with **** standards and automotive expectations.
- Identify technical, execution, and program risks early; drive datadriven mitigation and

executive decisionmaking.





- Provide clear executivelevel reporting on validation status, risks, readiness, and

outcomes.

- Act as a trusted partner to Design, DV, Test, Firmware, Software, Product Engineering,

Quality, and BU leadership.

- Adoption of industry best practices as a measurable program

Required Skills & Experience:

- B.E./B. Tech or M.E./M. Tech in Electronics, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, or

equivalent industry experience.

- 18+ years of experience in semiconductor validation, characterization, or silicon

engineering, with demonstrated ownership of silicon quality outcomes.

- 3+ years in senior technical leadership roles
- Strong domain expertise in automotive SoC validation, systemlevel usecase testing,

and robustness validation.

- Proven experience delivering complex SoC programs from first silicon through

production release.

- Deep understanding of silicon validation flows, lab environments, and postsilicon debug

ecosystems.

- Demonstrated success building and scaling automationfirst validation frameworks using

Python, C++, or similar technologies.

- Solid experience driving crossfunctional execution in a matrixed, global environment.
- Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and decisionmaking

skills.

- Experience with AI frameworks for SoC Validation efficiency and quality gain eg

validation specific AI agents, Cody AI for content development etc.

Preferred:

- Experience with ISO 26262 / ASILD development and validation environments.
- Exposure to emulation/FPGAbased shiftleft validation and prepost silicon continuity

models.

- Strong foundation in mixedsignal and digital silicon validation, including patternbased

and systemlevel methodologies.

- Track record of institutionalizing industry best practices across multiple programs and

organizations.

- Experience leading culture change toward proactive risk ownership, evidencebased

closure, and challengeready execution.

- Automotive OEM or Tier1 customer engagement experience.

📌 Sr Principal Engineer - Validation (Hyderabad)
🏢 Randstad
📍 Hyderabad