Principal Test Engineer

Basic Qualifications

• Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. At minimum, a Bachelor’s in EE is required, and a Master’s is preferred.
• ≥8-year experience releasing complex SoC/silicon products to high volume manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of high-speed protocols like PCIe, Ethernet, Infiniband, DDR, NVMe, USB, etc.
• Professional attitude with ability to execute on multiple tasks with minimal supervision.
• Strong team player with good communication skills to work alongside a team of high caliber engineers.
• Entrepreneurial, open-mind behavior and can-do attitude.

Required Experience

• Hands-on experience with high-speed mixed signal SoC test program/hardware development on multiple high-speed test platforms.
• Collaboration with design team to define test strategy, create and own test plan.
• Tester platform selection, design, and development of ATE hardware for wafer sort and final test.
• Familiar with high-speed load board design techniques.
• Proven track record of implementing ATE patterns to optimize tester resources and minimize ATE test time while maintaining product quality.
• Strong knowledge and development of DFT techniques implemented in silicon that provide maximum defect and parametric device coverage – SCAN, MEMBIST, SerDes and other functional tests.
• Skilled in control interfaces – I2C, I3C, SPI, MDIO, JTAG etc.
• Expertise in production test of high speed SerDes operating at 16Gbps and higher.
• Skilled in ATE programming, silicon/ATE bring-up, bench-ATE correlation and debug.
• Experience with lab equipment including protocol analyzers and oscilloscopes.
• Experience with using Advantest 93k ATE platform.
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C/C++, Python.

Preferred Experience

• Fluent in data processing using high level programming languages.
• Experience in running External loopback at wafer sort.
• Familiarity with modern databases

Pay

The base salary range is $209,000.00 USD – $230,000.00 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.