Principal Design Validation & Test (DVT) Engineer

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of hands-on post-silicon validation, DVT, or silicon bring-up experience with complex ASICs or SoCs.
• Proven experience bringing first silicon to production in networking, communications, data center, AI, or high-performance computing products.
• Strong understanding of silicon debug methodologies and structured root-cause analysis.
• Extensive experience using laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, BERTs, protocol analyzers, network analyzers, logic analyzers, and related validation tools.
• Strong knowledge of one or more high-speed protocols including PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, CXL, USB, SPI, I²C, or similar interfaces.
• Strong Python programming skills for automation, regression development, and data analysis.
• Experience validating firmware, embedded software, drivers, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Ability to interpret schematics, understand board design, power sequencing, signal integrity, and hardware debug.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively across Architecture, Design, Firmware, Systems, Product Engineering, Manufacturing, and Customer Engineering teams.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities evolve quickly and every team member has significant technical ownership.
• Ability to work onsite at our Irvine, California headquarters.

• Experience validating coherent optical DSPs, networking ASICs, Ethernet switch silicon, AI accelerators, GPUs, storage controllers, or high-speed communications devices.
• Strong knowledge of Ethernet, PCIe, OIF, IEEE, or related compliance specifications.
• Experience with PIPE, PCS, PMA, MAC, PHY, or other physical and protocol layers of high-speed interfaces.
• Experience building scalable validation automation, regression systems, dashboards, and data pipelines.
• Familiarity with customer platform validation and hyperscale qualification processes.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives across multiple engineering disciplines.

At Celero, you'll help develop the next generation of coherent DSP technology enabling AI infrastructure and hyperscale networking.

As a Principal Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to influence product architecture, shape validation strategy, work alongside industry leaders, and make a significant impact within a collaborative, high-growth startup environment where innovation, ownership, and technical excellence are valued every day