Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

Job Title: Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

Location: San Diego, CA

Work Mode: 100% Onsite

Work Hours: 40 hours/week, 1st Shift (To be flexible for occasional 2nd shift work and occasional weekend work)

Duration: 1 year, 10+ months

Travel/Driving Requirement: May involve less than 2 hours of driving per week between campus buildings using a personal vehicle or company shuttle

Physical Requirement: Ability to carry/move hardware or equipment up to 20 lbs

Summary:

We are seeking to add an experienced and versatile engineer to our team, to execute & streamline our validation processes. To fit this role, you should have hands on experience with post-silicon validation, automation and excellent problem-solving & communication skills. Job responsibilities include:

Responsibilities:

* Strong grasp of concepts & workings of SoCs, SOC architectures, CPUs, DDRs, on chip bus & networking protocols & embedded system concepts

* Strong understanding of challenges with DDR, high-speed peripherals/buses, GPIOs

* Strong knowledge of test platforms for SOCs and testing methodologies

* Manage recurring High Volume Validation tasks such as execution of tests, scheduling regression jobs, analyzing results and triaging failures

* Debugging test failures & platforms

* Strong aptitude to improve existing & drive new stress testing methodologies

* Develop automation solutions for operations and to scale SOC validation and integration activities.

* Provide Lab support for HW configuration management & logistics

* Manage jobs for robotic handlers

* Lab IT activities

* Comprehend & refine processes by interacting with Project managers, leads, users & software engineers. Create end-to-end automation requirements & solutions.

* Formalize and document validation processes (inputs, flowchart, outputs, dashboards) working with stakeholders & publish results.

* Attend and drive periodic team meetings & ad hoc brainstorming sessions

* Manage lab infrastructure challenges

* Customer support

Top 5 Required Skills:

1. ?Experience with post-silicon enabling, bring-up, analyze failures at the embedded platform level, debugging low level software and hardware issues & debug tools including JTAG

2. Using Lab Equipment (Logic Analyzer, Scope, Signal Generator, Thermal Chambers, TCUs etc.)

3. Board level expertise

4. Automation

5. IT Skills - PCs, SW configurations

6. Excellent communication skills

Technologies:

1. JTAG/Lauterbach

2. SOC knowledge

3. Compiler toolchain for embedded SW like LLVM or GCC

4. Python, Object Oriented Programming, Programming Concepts

5. Jenkins, Jira, Splunk or similar web-based enterprise/BI applications

Preferred:

1. Basic understanding of power and performance

2. Knowledge of TCU, PVT, Fmax, Vmin test methodology and hands-on experience

3. CPU and SoC architectures

4. Experience using Handlers/Automated pick & place machines

5. Program & logistics management experience

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field with 3-5 years of Systems Engineering or related experience

OR

Master's degree in the same fields with 2-4 years of related experience