The opportunity
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to…
What you'll do
Lead Custom Silicon Productization: Drive advanced ASICs and domain-specific architectures (TPU, ISP, AI/ML compute) for the Waymo Driver from first-silicon bring-up through characterization and high-volume production ramp.
Define System-Level Test (SLT) Content & Hardware Strategy: Develop targeted test workloads, stress conditions, and pass/fail criteria and the define and architect the production screening hardware to rigorously screen marginal silicon and system interactions.
Lead RMA & Field Failure Investigations: Drive comprehensive root-cause analysis for field returns and RMAs by correlating failure signatures with system telemetry, manufacturing history, and lab data to continuously improve ASIC reliability and close screening and validation gaps.
Execute Hands-On Debug & Production Readiness: Perform hands-on silicon debug using lab equipment, system logs, firmware/software traces, and schematics to develop product operating limits, guard bands, binning strategies, and screening criteria based on characterization results.
Optimize Yield & Product Health: Develop large-scale data mining and statistical analysis to identify failure signatures and yield limiters, translating hardware insights into actionable design feedback and scalable screening improvements.
Silicon Bring-Up and Product Characterization: Partner closely with architecture, validation, platform, operations, and supplier teams to correlate lab, manufacturing, and system telemetry data, and root-cause silicon and system-level issues.
What they're looking for
- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering,: Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
- + years of experience in product engineering, silicon bring-up, silicon: characterization, yield debug, system validation, failure analysis, or productization of SoC, ASIC, or other complex semiconductor products, including hands-on experience bringing up and characterizing complex silicon products from engineering samples through production release.
- Experience defining or deploying system-level test, platform-level: validation, production screening, or workload-based stress testing; Experience with yield analysis, failure signature analysis, margin analysis, guardbanding, correlation analysis, RMA analysis, or production-quality improvement.
- Experience debugging silicon or system-level failures using characterization: data, system logs, lab measurements, firmware/software traces, schematics, and manufacturing data; Ability to read and interpret schematics, silicon specifications, characterization reports, system logs, and production data.