Senior Validation Engineer Semiconductor Industry

Role & responsibilities

The Validation Engineering position is focused on helping with development of our client's digital and parametric testing infrastructure. Significant time will be spent developing test cases, performing lab bench experiments, and assisting other team members in the validation of 8 and 32-bit microcontrollers at the unit and system-level.

1. Candidate will have the primary role of creating, auditing, and overseeing test procedures, validation plans, data collection, post-processing of validation data, reports, and documenting results.
2. Candidate should be familiar with using lab equipment such as Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Power Supplies, Arbitrary Waveform and Pulse generators, etc.
3. Fluent in use of PCB schematics and layout.
4. Develop performance tests for determining circuit margin and datasheet parameters.

Preferred candidate profile

1. Experience with Microcontrollers, FPGAs, and in general, Embedded Systems. Familiar with embedded ARM Cortex M family, RISC-V, MIPS is preferred
2. Experience with communication busses (GPIB, RS-232, RS-485, SPI/QSPI, I2C, I2S, USB, EBI, Ethernet, etc.).
3. Experience with Embedded firmware development and should have strong hands-on knowledge of embedded C programming language
4. Able to understand and generate board schematics, , board design - schematic entry, BOM creation, net list generation (logical board design).
5. Strong analytical and problem-solving / debug skills. Code and System debugging skills