Silicon Validation Engineer, Sr I

Come and be part of a combined team environment that innovates and develops the latest IP solutions that enable the way the world designs.
 
As a Silicon Validation Engineer working in a lab environment, you will be taking care of product qualification and compliance of different electrical standards and protocol specifications. You will be part of an R&D team developing high-speed, mixed-signal IP designs. We are looking for a seasoned engineer with theoretical knowledge and practical experience to contribute to the silicon validation lab team. Our R&D test lab contains high-speed test equipment such as: Bit Error Rate Testers, Real Time Oscilloscopes, Sampling Scopes, Vector Network Analyzers and Time Domain Reflectometers.
 
Duties:
 
•    Work with a cross functional design team of analog designers, systems designers, application engineers, and customers to resolve problems and demonstrate product performance;
•    Examine circuit behavior and its limitations in a characterization and/or silicon validation environment;
•    Test the product against target standards and specifications.
•    Research and specify test equipment and components to support defined test plans and methodologies.
•    Creating test reports;
•    Developing test boards and hardware solutions to support product validation;
•    Debug of electronic circuits; investigate product non-conformance.
 
Preferred Qualifications:
 
•    3 to 5 years of relevant experience (post-silicon validation, lab instrumentation, characterization and debug).
•    Master degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering.
•    Passionate to work in a lab environment.
•    Solid Analog and Mixed-Signal circuit knowledge.
•    Software programming proficiency.
•    Expertise and experience programming with MatLab and/or Python.
•    Debugging/troubleshooting skills.
 
Other assets include:  
 
•    Test and debug background of PAM-4 signaling type.
•    Experience with IC Test and Validation of Mixed Signal, ADC/DAC and SerDes test circuits
•    PCB design knowledge.
•    Signal Integrity/Power Integrity knowledge.
•    Experience with tools for schematic entry, and SPICE simulation.
•    Data review, data mining.

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