System Validation Lead (Senior Staff/Principal)

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Debug of system functionality issues in the lab.
• Lab measurements for functional and electrical debug of system.
• PCB bring-up for hardware validation.
• Developing FPGA-based design test cases, programming it onto the FPGA, running tests on silicon, and checking for vital parameters.
• Lab management including acquiring and setting up lab equipment, maintaining lab inventory, lab equipment allocation, etc.
• Setting up testing infrastructure for different functional and electrical tests in the lab and keeping the infrastructure up to date.
• Run system validation tests on customer-facing cards, including DPU accelerator cards, on different systems, and ensuring PCB robustness for different test cases.
• Providing feedback to the design team on electrical and functional issues.
• Proposing testing strategies and hardware infrastructure for system validation.
• Running Ethernet and PCIe electrical and functional compliance tests, and able to debug issues.
• Debug complex system-level issues spanning different interfaces and provide robust system solutions for them.
• Automating system validation flows to reduce run time and efficiently post process results.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including ASIC, Firmware, and Validation, to ensure seamless product validation.

Required Skills

• Fully hands-on in a lab environment.
• Expertise in lab measurements and system-level debug.
• Experience with electrical test and characterization of silicon test chips in a lab.
• Experience working with PCIe/DDR/Ethernet/GDDR6 protocols.
• Thorough knowledge of oscilloscopes, BERT, TDR, protocol analyzer and other lab equipment.
• Understanding the chip, package, and PCB design, and creating test plans for system validation accordingly.
• Experience reviewing PCB schematics and layout of high-speed interfaces.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to create solutions around high-level requirements.
• Thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, with a pro-active mindset.
• Works well with other team members and has a collaborative approach.
• Comfortable programming in a scripting language (e.g., Python) and writing complete programs from scratch (e.g. 5000+ lines of code).
• Comfortable designing/maintaining flows and methodologies from scratch.
• Knowledge of SI/PI preferred.
• Ability to break a complex problem into simpler problems and to localize and resolve problems.
• Well organized, punctual, and excellent communication skills.