Staff Engineer, Design Evaluation Engineering

Responsibilities

• Design Validation Ownership: Work directly with design engineers and system architects to develop validation plans for new products, covering functional, performance, margin, and robustness requirements.
• Lab Evaluation & Characterization: Execute validation plans through hands-on laboratory testing, including silicon bring-up, characterization, debug, and corner analysis of high-speed SerDes products.
• Test Hardware & Software Development: Design and develop evaluation hardware (boards, fixtures, adapters) and software (scripts, automation frameworks, embedded firmware) required to enable efficient and repeatable testing.
• Debug & Root-Cause Analysis: Lead or contribute to functional, performance, and system-level debug of new IP and products, spanning digital, analog, mixed-signal, firmware, and system interfaces.
• Data Analysis & Reporting: Analyze large and complex data sets, summarize results clearly, and communicate findings and recommendations to cross-functional team.

Qualifications

• Education & Experience: BSEE or equivalent with 5+ years of relevant experience, or MSEE with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Silicon Bring-Up & Lab Validation Experience: Proven experience executing silicon bring-up, validation, and characterization of ICs in a laboratory environment.
• Test Hardware Development: Experience designing characterization hardware infrastructure, including evaluation boards, fixtures, and de-embedding structures.
• Test Software & Automation Development: Experience developing software and automation infrastructure for lab validation using scripting or programming languages such as Python, C/C++, C#, or similar.
• Hardware Debug & Measurement Skills: Strong hands-on capability with lab instrumentation such as high-speed oscilloscopes, VNAs, BERTs, logic analyzers, signal/spectrum analyzers, and power measurement equipment.
• SerDes & Communications Expertise: Solid understanding of high-speed digital interfaces, SerDes fundamentals, clocking, jitter, signal integrity, power integrity, and mixed-signal system behavior.
• Debug & Root-Cause Analysis: Demonstrated ability to independently debug functional, performance, and system-level issues and drive issues to root cause with design teams.
• Communication & Collaboration: Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document results, present findings, and work effectively in a cross-functional design environment.