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

As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy productive 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 We are seeking a Memory Controller Silicon Validation Engineer for the silicon validation of memory controllers and subsystems at the full-system level, from pre-silicon environments through first-silicon bring-up and post-silicon qualification.

What You'll Achieve

- Participate in silicon bring-up of memory controllers, including board power-on, clocks, resets, boot flow, JTAG access, and firmware initialization
- Developing and executing validation plans, firmware- and software-based tests, and system-level workloads to verify controller functionality, initialization, training, data integrity, performance, power management, reliability, and error handling
- Creating test content and low-level firmware using C, Python, and other scripting languages, if suitable
- Validating controller features including ECC, error injection, refresh, scrambling, encryption, address mapping, interleaving, arbitration, and low-power states
- Measuring and optimizing memory bandwidth, latency, timing, calibration, and performance across supported configurations
- Execute stress and corner testing across voltage, frequency, temperature, workloads, and memory configurations
- Debugging issues, correlate results between pre-silicon and silicon, and drive controller validation through product qualification and production readiness




- Building automation for test execution, regression tracking, result analysis, and failure triage
- Collaborating with design, firmware, PHY, board, architecture, manufacturing, and customer teams to drive issues to closure and support qualification and production readiness

About You

- Bachelor's degree & 5 years or Master's degree & 3 years of experience in memory subsystem validation with hands-on exposure to validating memory technologies such as DDR4, DDR5, LPDDR4/LPDDR5, HBM, or related interfaces, controllers, and system integration.
- Strong understanding of memory controller architecture and protocols, including DDR4/DDR5, LPDDR4/LPDDR5, HBM
- Knowledge of DFI, JEDEC standards, ECC/RAS, power management
- Proficiency in C for firmware and low-level testing, plus Python, Perl, Shell, or similar scripting languages for automation
- Understanding of embedded processors, memory maps, registers, interrupts, DMA, boot flows, and Linux or embedded operating systems
- Experience debugging hardware/software interaction issues using logs, register dumps, waveforms, protocol traces, and failure signatures
- Experience with lab and debug tools such as JTAG, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, trace tools, and debug probes
- Strong analytical, debugging, documentation, and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

- Hands-on experience with first-silicon bring-up, evaluation boards, reference platforms, and post-silicon validation




- Strong knowledge of embedded systems, hardware–software interaction, firmware, operating-system behaviour, board-level debug, system performance analysis, AMBA protocols, and silicon characterization.
- Familiarity with UVM/System Verilog, FPGA or emulation platforms, automated regression, CI, silicon characterization, and production or system-level qualification.

What We’ll Offer At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, cash long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits Highlights Include

- Premium medical, dental, vision insurance, parental benefits including creche reimbursement, as well as a retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health, financial future and child care during work.
- Generous paid time off policy so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance
- Fully catered lunch in our office along with a variety of healthy snacks, energizing coffee or tea, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.

And there is much more than compensation and benefits. At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more. We are excited to share more about our career opportunities with you through the interview process. Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.

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