Staff Silicon Validation Engineer
Lattice Semiconductor
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Validate and characterize integrated circuit (IC) products from tape-out through release to production.
- Develop validation and characterization plans, bench hardware and software.
- Develop usecase RTL to achieve required test.
- Drive new silicon product bring-up, debug and characterization to determine product performance.
- Serve as the central resource with design, process, manufacturing, test, quality and marketing as the product(s) move to production release.
- Functional validation. Performance measurement. Measured data analysis, data sheet preparation and reviewing the test result
- Schedule and maintain status of new product validation, characterization process and qualification issues pertaining to new product introduction.
- Interact with internal design, manufacturing, and applications on all product issues.
- Support device failure analysis as required to resolve any device-related problems.
- 5 to 10 years of experience
- Electrical Engineering degree with a strong desire to pursue an engineering career in Silicon Design Validation
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to work with cross-functional team
- Having FPGA emulation experience is highly desirable.
- Expertise in High Speed Interface characterization and protocol compliance testing such as PCI Express, MIPI D-PHY, MIPI CSI/DSI-2, and DisplayPort
- Expertise in high speed board level design and signal integrity evaluation/debug.
- Expertise in Verilog/VHDL and design implementation using FPGA development tools.
- Expertise in test automation development using programming languages such as Python, Perl.
- Knowledge of statistical analysis concepts and use of analysis tools such as JMP, R.
- Experience with microcontroller firmware development and debug.
- Proficiency with bench equipment for device characterization such as BERT, VNA, Oscilloscopes, Protocol Exerciser/Analyzers.
- Self-motivated and proactive with critical thinking.
- Good problem solving and de-bugging skills.