Proto is accelerating the world's transition to an open economy with products that increase access and independence for everyone. We're building Bitkey, a simple and safe self-custody bitcoin wallet that will put customers in control, as well as hardware and software that will help decentralize bitcoin mining and enable new and innovative use cases for bitcoin mining. We're developing these products in the open - you can read more about them at bitkey.build and mining.build . Within Proto, our Bitcoin Products team delivers the product and go-to-market strategy, software, firmware, and custom silicon needed to make Bitkey and our ambitious mining initiatives a reality. Come build the future of money with us! The Role We are looking for an ASIC Validation Engineer to help bridge the gap between custom mining silicon design and real-world operation. In this highly hands-on, lab-focused role, you'll work closely with ASIC designers and system engineers to debug issues, build test infrastructure, and generate the data needed to enable rapid design iteration and system-level development. You Will: Bring up new silicon on bench platforms, evaluation boards, and system hardware Debug issues across ASIC, board, firmware, and system interactions Develop bench tests, scripts, and tools to exercise silicon features and collect data Build and maintain test setups (lab automation, instrumentation, fixtures, scripts) Partner with ASIC designers to validate functionality and root-cause failures Work with system engineers to ensure silicon performs correctly in target system environments , including mining systems Generate and analyze data to support design decisions, ch