Job Details:

Role: Principal Engineer - Validation

Employment Type: Full Time(Direct Payroll)

Location & Mode: Hyderabad (Hybrid)

Job Description:

We are seeking a Principal Engineer, Validation with deep technical expertise and robust system-level thinking to architect, lead, and continuously improve post-silicon system and functional validation for complex SoC/MCU platforms.

This role is mission-critical to ensuring first-time-right silicon, validating functional correctness, feature compliance, performance, power, and robustness across real-world use cases, PVT corners, and customer workloads. The Principal Engineer acts as a technical authority and trusted advisor, driving validation strategy across pre-silicon, emulation, FPGA, and silicon phases while preventing escapes.

Key Responsibilities:
- Own and define automotive systemlevel postsilicon validation strategy aligned to ASILD quality and zeroescape goals.
- Drive prepost silicon continuity, enabling reuse of validation content across simulation, emulation, FPGA, and silicon.




- Architect and own end-to-end validation plans, test strategies, and feature-to-coverage matrices mapped to architecture and design specifications
- Lead validation of boot, power/clock/reset, safety mechanisms, memory, interconnects, and interfaces under stress, corner, and fault conditions.
- Influence SoC architecture and design by identifying validation risks, corner cases, and observability gaps early.
- Lead system bringup on automotive evaluation boards, emulation/FPGA platforms, and silicon.
- Define requirements for validation infrastructure, lab readiness, instrumentation, and automation frameworks.
- Serve as final technical escalation point for complex postsilicon issues; drive disciplined, evidencebased RCA across HW/FW/SW.
- Establish escapeprevention mechanisms using coverage proxies, stress scenarios, and datadriven signoff criteria.
- Champion automationfirst validation, including regressions, diagnostics, CI i

📌 Principal Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Randstad
📍 Hyderabad