Senior Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the post-silicon validation strategy, including test planning, execution, coverage, and sign-off.

• Lead the initial silicon bring-up for power management, clock systems, debug interfaces, processor and memory subsystems, peripherals, and high-speed interfaces.

• Formulate the validation strategy and establish readiness criteria for product integration.

• Ensure the silicon, firmware, test infrastructure, and system interfaces are prepared for integration.

• Oversee system-level functional, performance, stress, and corner-case testing.

• Create the test and validation laboratory, encompassing equipment, infrastructure, test setups, and automated characterization and regression environments.

• Characterize RF chains, PLLs, ADCs/DACs, clocking, and power in collaboration with RF/analog and mixed-signal designers.

• Validate DSP and calibration algorithms on silicon, correlating measured performance with models and simulations.

• Collaborate with FPGA, firmware, RTL/DV, hardware, and systems teams to expedite bring-up and facilitate end-to-end validation.

• Drive cross-functional debugging across silicon, firmware, RTL, packaging, board, and system boundaries.

• Develop reusable automation for instrumentation control, data collection, analysis, regression, and reporting.

• Manage silicon issues from discovery through to root cause analysis, workaround identification, and resolution.

⛳️ Requirements

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with equivalent experience.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in post-silicon validation, SoC bring-up, silicon characterization, or related fields.

• Practical experience with bringing up intricate mixed-signal SoCs/ASICs and transitioning silicon into product/system integration.

• Proficient with lab test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum/signal analyzers, vector signal generators, network analyzers, logic analyzers, power supplies, and related RF/mixed-signal instrumentation.

• Solid understanding of SoC architecture and a working knowledge of RF/analog and mixed-signal circuits.

• Strong hardware/software debugging skills across silicon, RTL, firmware, board, and systems.

• Experience in constructing silicon validation labs, test infrastructure, and automated measurement environments.

• Experience in validating DSP, calibration, or signal-processing functionalities in silicon.

• Proficient in Python/scripting for lab automation, instrumentation, and data analysis.

• Familiarity with embedded C/C++, JTAG, SPI, UART, and register-level debugging.

• Ability to lead cross-functional bring-up efforts while remaining actively involved in the lab.

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

• Preferred: Experience with RF SoC and RF/analog characterization.

• Preferred: Experience in validating ADC/DAC, PLL, RF transceiver, or high-speed SerDes/JESD.

• Preferred: Experience with FPGA prototyping and RISC-V/ARM SoCs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Reasonable accommodations available as part of the employment application or interview process.

• Equal opportunity employment.