Embedded Systems Engineer – Post-Silicon Validation (NPU)

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Job Details: Job Description: About the Role Do you have a software engineer's mindset and an obsession with finding the root cause of hard problems? Are you the kind of engineer who reads a spec for fun, debugs across layers without a map, and gets energised when nobody else knows what's wrong yet? We're building the next generation of Neural Processing Unit (NPU) silicon at Intel's Leixlip site — and we're looking for someone to help us validate it works, find out when it doesn't, and figure out exactly why. This is a post-silicon validation role. That means you will be working with real silicon, running tests on actual hardware, and debugging failures that nobody has seen before. On any given day you might be reading a microarchitecture spec, writing a C/C++ or python unit test, probing a power rail, or digging through kernel logs. You will collaborate directly with architecture and design teams across Intel. Beyond functional validation, a significant part of this role involves power and performance characterisation and tuning. You will instrument silicon to understand how it behaves under real AI workloads — profiling power states, characterising frequency and voltage operatin...