Silicon Validation Architect
ARM

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Role Overview

Job Overview

Lead architect for system validation for mobile and server SOCs. Responsible for developing new capabilities, methods, and debug of issues from pre-silicon to customer ramp. Influence internal and external teams to improve product quality and TTM.
Responsibilities:

• responsible for developing methodologies for PVT (Process, Voltage, and Temperature), SLT (System Level Test), SVC (Voltage corners across Process), and general validation coverage for the SOCs.
• Drives capabilities and improvements to the system validation platform to improve test coverage, debug capability and board level functionality. This includes integrating debug tools, power measurements, voltage control, logging, and other board level architecture to improve validation quality, debug times, coverage, and automation.
• Owns System Validation SW infrastructure, test methodology, and debug techniques across the validation team. Drive/review test plans and deliverables to ensure resources are working in areas with the largest return on investment.
• Develops methodology to debug and root-cause PVT marginality issues using the LADA to improve product VMins and maximum frequency targets. Close the loop from pre-silicon design tools timing closure to post-silicon validation results by motivating changes into design timing tools to more accurately simulate real-world silicon behavior.
• Intimately involved in all debug activities from pre-silicon to customer ramp. This includes driving silicon fixes into future products and revisions, finding and implementing SW and HW solutions to work-around silicon and system bugs, and influencing product engineering (manufacturing) test programs, kill limits, voltage guard-bands and test SW to improve yields and DPM.
• As the last line of defense on customer level issues. Directly interacts with customer teams, SW teams, design teams, application Engineers to quickly root-cause and resolve customer lines-down and ramp limiting issues. Ultimate goal is to ramp products quickly and improve TTM. Continuously drive validation improvements to find bugs earlier in the product
• Builds close relationships with external teams to improve quality, and develop new cross-group BKMs to improve product quality and TTM.
• Owns thermal management scheme for the company used to ensure silicon operates within thermal limits and maintains basic level of performance. Drive characterization of silicon across process, temperature, and voltage for all major sub-systems in the SOC. Apply characterization to thermal system model to maximize performance and minimize power as the device approaches the thermal limits. Deliver SW frequency and voltage limits per block per product to ensure silicon operates within specification and meets minimal performance targets. Work closely with SW teams across the world to test and validate the Thermal Management Scheme ensuring it meets customer requirements. Drive kill limits to Product Engineering to ensure product quality and maintain high product yields
• Continuously, develops new capabilities to improve validation efficiency, coverage and debug, then train junior engineering take over ownership going forward.
• Product Definition: Play a key role in product definition, design architecture, SW development, and within product engineering teams to improve product features and TTM. Influence design to reduce total engineering resources, rather than just design resources. Influence change across product groups that have impacts to product quality and features and remove changes that don't contribute.

In Return:

At Arm, we are guided by our core beliefs that reflect our rare culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to surpass ordinary and shape extraordinary:
We not I

• Take daily responsibility to make the Global Arm community thrive
• No individual is responsible for the right answer. Brilliance is collective!
• Information is crucial, share it
• Realize that we win when we collaborate - and that everyone misses out when we don't

Passion for progress

• Our differences are our strength. Widen and mix up your network of connections
• Make feedback positive and expansive, not negative and narrow!
• The essence of progress is that it can't stop. Grow with it and lead your own progress

Be your brilliant self

• Be spirited, not egocentric
• Recognize the power in saying 'I don't know'

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