FPGA Post Silicon Validation Engineer - Security

Job Title

FPGA Post Silicon Validation Engineer - Security

Role Summary

Join the Silicon Validation team to lead device- and IP-level validation of FPGA security features including secure boot and root-of-trust. The role focuses on ensuring security, reliability, and system integrity for FPGA and SoC devices through hands-on bring-up, debug, and cross-functional collaboration.

Work closely with architecture, design, firmware, and platform teams to develop validation strategies and influence future secure FPGA products.

Experience Level

Senior — requires 8+ years of hands-on silicon validation experience focused on FPGA configuration, security, SoC, or embedded processor subsystems.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include designing and executing validation plans, debugging silicon issues, and improving validation infrastructure.

• Develop validation strategies aligned with device architecture, security requirements, and business objectives.
• Validate security features: secure boot, authentication, encryption, key management, root-of-trust, and protection against unauthorized access.
• Create and execute test cases and vectors for configuration robustness, security corner cases, fault injection, and negative testing.
• Perform device and system bring-up, debug security violations, boot hangs, and issues across silicon revisions.
• Validate on evaluation boards, reference platforms, and customer-like systems to ensure interoperability and real-world coverage.
• Drive improvements in validation methodologies, automation, and test infrastructure for better coverage and scalability.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and board teams to ensure security-ready evaluation platforms and observability for debug.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience; nice-to-have items listed separately.

• Must-have: 8+ years of silicon validation experience with a strong focus on FPGA configuration, security, SoC, or embedded processor subsystems.
• Must-have: Strong knowledge of hardware security concepts: secure boot, authentication, encryption, key storage, lifecycle states, and threat modeling.
• Must-have: Hands-on system-level validation and debug experience including power-on bring-up, failure analysis, and silicon issue triage.
• Must-have: Experience with test automation and scripting (Python) for validation infrastructure.
• Nice-to-have: Familiarity with FPGA and SoC architectures.
• Nice-to-have: Verilog familiarity.

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (as stated). No certifications specified.

About the Company

Company: Altera

Headquarters: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Altera provides leadership programmable solutions for applications ranging from cloud to edge, unveiling limitless AI possibilities. Their extensive product portfolio includes FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, and System on Modules aimed at accelerating innovation in various fields.