Description

Invent the future with us.

Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an creative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute.

As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications.

Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team - we’d love to have you apply

About The Role

This position is for a Principal Silicon Validation Engineer within the Silicon Validation Engineering team, supporting Ampere’s AI Compute family. The engineer will test, qualify, and improve bare-metal validation framework used for CPU/Mesh, SoC, and platform validation across emulation and post-silicon environments.

The role owns regression strategy, test automation, CI/CD integration, results analysis, and first-level failure triage. The engineer will ensure validation processes, traceability, documentation,



and test evidence meet strict ISO 26262 functional-safety and high-quality engineering requirements up to ASIL-D, where applicable

What You'll Achieve

Develop test plans, automated regression suites, and validation strategies for the bare-metal framework.
Create and execute functional, negative, stress, robustness, fault-injection, and regression tests across simulation, emulation, FPGA, and post-silicon environments.
Validate framework execution, build/load/boot flows, CPU and memory features, interrupts, timers, coherency, power/reset, error handling, recovery, and multicore configurations.
Own regression execution, monitoring, metrics, CI/CD pipelines, test artifacts, and reporting.
Perform first-level triage; reproduce and classify failures across test, framework, firmware, hardware, configuration, and lab infrastructure.
Develop automation for test execution, log collection, result analysis, failure classification, a

📌 Principal Silicon Validation Engineer (India)
🏢 Ampere
📍 India