Hardware Engineering and R&D - Hardware Test Engineer 5
• Candidate Location Requirements: Onsite, Charlotte North Carolina
• If hybrid, # of days contractor will be required to work onsite: 5 days onsite
• Daily Schedule & OT estimate: M-F 40 hours, standard core hours
• Chance for Extension (Y/N): Yes
Typical Day in the Role
• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is the design of analog and mixed signal Ips.
• Key projects: This role will contribute to helping with testing silicon - measurements, data collection, characterization and data processing and reviewing the data and assisting in a debug and kind of the final silicon reports.
• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of 30% scripting and automating the D measurements (Python scripts), 15-20% data collection, 15-20% debugging and data processing/reporting, and 30% hardware set up.
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition
• What makes this role interesting? - This role provides the opportunity to work with very advance silicon – leading edge technologies for Azure cloud hardware. This is a very collaborative and innovative team, ability to be working with designers and architects to resolve problems and debug.
Candidate Requirements
• Years of Experience Required: 10+ overall years of experience in the field.
• Degrees or certifications required: Bachelor's degree in engineering highly preferred.
• Disqualifiers: Candidates with lack of experience in the lab and constant job hopping will not be eligible for the role.
• Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain experience with electrical engineering, understanding basics of basics of kind of analog circuits and ideally power and power delivery circuits.
• Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on quality of work- be able to collect data and complete tests, meeting deadlines, and feedback from the team.
Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience
1. Minimum 5+ years experience with Python
2. Minimum 5+ years experience with working in a lab
3. Any years experience with Visual Studios – plus
Hard Skills Assessments
• Expected Dates that Hard Skills Assessments will be scheduled: After 5/19 .
• Hard Skills Assessment Process: The assessment process will include 1 round- 30 minutes.
• Required Candidate Preparation: Candidates should be able to speak on prior experience prior to the assessment.
Summary: The main responsibility of this role will be to test integrated circuits with digital and analog functions through electrical measurements. This involves hardware setup with measurement equipment, power supplies, test automation through scripting, data collection and processing. Job Responsibilities / Skills • Develop and execute electrical validation of mixed-signal integrated circuits. • Understand how to debug digital interfaces like JTAG. • Utilize TCL, PDL and python scripting to automate validation tasks and improve efficiency. • Perform validation tests using oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters and other lab equipment through application interfaces. • Document validation activities and results, and analyze test data to ensure specifications are met. • Experience with characterizing analog circuits and/or power delivery systems. • Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate remotely using digital collaboration tools.
Education/Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering required.
• 10+ years experience required.