Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering

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Job Description:

Validation Engineer (PCB/Board/Product level validation)

Description:

The qualified individual will make significant contributions to the development of world-class solid state flash drives (SSD).

Duties and responsibilities include:

As member of the HW validation team, he should have the knowledge to perform duties associated with formal Electrical Validation Testing (EVT) at the board level.

• Good understanding of oscilloscopes and best-practice probing concerns/techniques, power supplies, electronic loads,
• Power Delivery Network (PDN) testing and analysis, VRM circuit understanding, and functional characterization
• Knowledge of System communication bus (I2C, SPI, SMBus) and high-speed protocols and to perform testing/characterization as part of EVT plans
• Perform system-level testing across Voltage & Temperature corners. Host power cycling/loss testing and stressed overnight functional testing etc.
• HW Validation Plans creation and reports generation
• Develop validation test cases with automation in mind
• Supporting Failure Analysis

Skills/Experience (7years -10years)

• Experience performing the following validation functions:
• Board bring-up and debug. Electrical Subsystem tests (Power-On, POR, Power measurements, etc.)
• Measurements of Input /output voltage levels for GPIO’s
• Operation Power measurements
• Clock measurements
• Memory and Flash Interface validation
• Thermal analysis is good to have
• I/O level characterization (4 Corner testing/TVS(Temperature voltage stress))
• Knowledge of high-speed scopes, logic analyzers, current probes, power analyzer, PCie/SATA/SAS protocol exerciser/analyzer is a must
• Working experience with DDR1/2/3/SATA/SAS/PCIe interfaces & test equipment is preferred
• Skill set on python and automation would be an added advantage

Personal Attributes:

• Capable of working effectively in a cross functional team environment with FAE, Hardware, Software, and ASIC engineering teams on validation testing
• Strong time management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Must be detail-oriented with strong analytical skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Work effectively and efficiently with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills to recommend validation strategies and find solutions.

Min BE in electrical/Electronics

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.