We are looking for a Validation Engineer for Fremont location. Please mail your updated resume to swathi@uandwe.com, if the below job interests you and matches your aspiration.
Location: CA, Fremont
Experience: 2-6 Years
Description:
- Electrical validation of various IOs (PCIe, USB3, UFS, DP, HDMI, etc.) in different chips (GPU/SOC). This involves:
- Understanding the test plan.
- Setting up the DUT for different test cases, executing them, and recording observations for each case clearly.
- Understanding spec expectations and flagging any failures to meet them.
- Performing first-level triage of issues/failures (e.g., analyzing and confirming that it is an actual failure and not caused by a board, measurement setup, or other issue), followed by data collection to root-cause the failures and find a fix.
Requirements:
Educational Qualifications:
- B.E. degree with Electrical/Electronic as major subjects.
Work Experience:
- 2 to 6 years of relevant work experience.
Technical Skills:
Required:
- Clarity on signal integrity concepts (e.g., insertion loss, reflections, crosstalk, etc.).
- Clarity on signal quality parameters (e.g., eye diagram, jitter, frequency ppm, duty cycle, etc.) and how to measure them.
- Familiarity with working in a lab environment and strong knowledge of using various equipment like DSO, Multimeter, Power supplies (e.g., idea about ESD, minimum oscilloscope/probe BW required for measurement, etc.).
- Knowledge to understand board design from schematics (*.pdf file) and layout (*.brd file - using Cadence Allegro tool) (e.g., should be able to understand signal/power topology from schematics, should be able to locate test points in PCB for signal of interest, etc.).
- Knowledge to assemble an x86 motherboard (e.g., connect SMPS, DRAM cards, PCIe AIC, display, other peripherals, etc. to the x86 motherboard).
- Knowledge of board/chip bring-up flow (e.g., idea on list of items to verify before/after attaching chip to board, like verifying No-Stuff components, impedance of voltage rails, etc.).
- Proficiency in Windows & Linux OS and Microsoft Office tools (e.g., in Linux: navigate folders, edit text files, move/copy files, SSH, execute scripts, etc.).
- Familiarity with scripting languages like Python/Perl (e.g., idea about installing different python modules, execute python scripts, etc.).
Desirable:
- Knowledge and hands-on experience on high speed SERDES IO (like PCIe, USB3, UFS, Ethernet, etc.) validation (e.g., eye measurement, JTOL testing, etc.).
- Knowledge and hands-on experience of using equipment like BERT (Bit Error Ratio Tester), PCIe/USB3/UFS Logic Analyzer, etc.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience on Silicon PVT characterization.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience on board bring-up and testing.
Soft Skills:
- Be an effective team player (e.g., volunteer to take up work, own up the task and approach folks to get things done, etc.).
- Communicate observations/requirements in a crisp and straightforward way.
Other:
- Engineer should be comfortable working from the office (lab) every day (excluding holidays).