Systems and Validation Lead/Manager

Role and Responsibility

• Work with a team of validation and characterization engineers responsible for product qualification.
• Work across multiple functional groups to meet overall product design and quality requirements.
• Design characterization test, system-level test, and demonstration systems that include MCUs, discreet logic, FPGA, multi-gigabit, and analog circuitry, including requirements gathering, specification, schematic, layout, and mechanical
• Work with company buyers to produce designs
• Review schematics/layout of internal and customer system platforms as per product requirements.
• Engage with potential customers and partners to identify custom requirements and incorporate those requirements into the system test process.
• Create/edit test plans based on system specifications that may relate to signal integrity, RF, mechanical integrity, electrical, and requirements based on generic protocols.
• Execute and stand behind the qualification of the product, from a mass production perspective, in consumer electronic devices.
• Mentor systems and validation team members

Qualifications and Experience

• BSEE Required, MSEE Preferred
• 8+ years of systems hardware development and debug experience, including for digital, multi-gigabit, and high frequency, low noise analog interfaces
• Deep knowledge of signal integrity and power integrity design practices
• Knowledge of at least 2 of electrical interfaces for any of the high-speed protocols: USB3+; PCIe 2/3; ThunderBolt, DisplayPort; HDMI; SATA/SAS, Ethernet, LPDDR4/5, GMSL
• Knowledge of inter-chip protocols, such as UART, I2C, I3C, SPI, I2S, PWM
• Knowledge of microcontroller and FPGA development and development environments
• Familiarity with Verilog
• Software development and debugging experience in C, C++, and Python and other scripting languages
• Ability to develop test scripts that control test equipment for determining IC device characteristics
• Familiarity with test equipment, including oscilloscope, sampling scope, BERT (including CDR), protocol analyzer, spectrum analyzer, VNA, TDR, and other basic equipment
• Understanding of mechanical and thermal concepts
• Extensive protocol testing experience with any of the above protocols including a good understanding of the required test infrastructure.
• Experience in creating and simulating models of wired links and being able to make appropriate tradeoffs.
• Team player with interest in filing up gaps in product development, as needed.

Expectations

• Develop the Validation, Characterization boards
• Set up and Manage the lab and its equipment
• Do the pre-silicon emulation on the FPGA Platform
• Do the Silicon Valtion and Characterization
• Do the ATE Vs System Correlations
• Develop automated scripts for doing bench testing of parts for early customer samples
• Work on the Data Sheets
• Develop the Evaluation platforms and support early customers
• Help debug the chip
• Be a mentor and lead a team of System engineers
• Work with Design, Verification and Test/Product engineering teams and release chips to production