ASIC Engineer

Job Title

ASIC Engineer

Role Summary

Work within Meta's Silicon Engineering organization to define and execute performance and pre-silicon modeling for custom infrastructure ASICs that support AI and data-center workloads. The role focuses on architectural performance analysis, pre-silicon modeling, microarchitectural trade-offs, and cross-functional alignment to meet throughput, latency, and efficiency targets.

Experience Level

Mid-level — typically requires 5+ years of experience in ASIC performance modeling or pre-silicon simulation.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities center on performance modeling, microarchitectural exploration, and collaboration across architecture, design, and software teams to translate system requirements into silicon specifications.

• Define and own performance modeling strategy and simulation environments for custom infrastructure ASICs.
• Drive microarchitectural exploration and trade-off analysis to inform silicon architecture decisions.
• Develop and validate pre-silicon performance models that predict post-silicon behavior for data-center workloads.
• Establish performance analysis methodologies and benchmarking frameworks across the ASIC pipeline.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, and physical design teams to translate performance requirements into microarchitectural specifications.
• Partner with software and systems teams to optimize workload scheduling and firmware against silicon performance.
• Lead technical reviews and present performance modeling results to engineering leadership.
• Define long-term performance modeling infrastructure roadmaps, tooling, and simulation platform investments.
• Mentor engineers on performance modeling techniques and best practices.
• Identify and resolve performance gaps through root-cause analysis and model calibration.

Requirements

Core technical requirements and preferred skills for successful candidates.

• Must-have: 5+ years of experience in ASIC performance modeling or pre-silicon simulation for custom silicon designs.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python for developing simulation models and performance analysis tools.
• Experience with cycle-accurate or transaction-level performance models for complex digital systems.
• Experience analyzing performance of data-center or AI workloads on custom silicon.
• Experience defining microarchitectural specifications and driving cross-functional alignment.

Nice-to-have:

• Familiarity with post-silicon performance validation methodologies and model calibration.
• Experience developing Python-based automation pipelines for simulation and performance analysis.
• Knowledge of high-level synthesis and PPA-driven microarchitectural optimization.
• Experience building performance modeling infrastructure for hyperscale data-center ASICs.
• Familiarity with hardware description languages such as SystemVerilog or VHDL.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field (or equivalent technical experience). Fields explicitly mentioned: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related technical fields.

About the Company

Company: Meta Platforms

Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, United States

American technology company that develops social networking products (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) and invests in virtual/augmented reality hardware and software through Reality Labs, focusing on connectivity, advertising, and immersive computing experiences.