Electrical Post-Silicon Characterization & Validation Engineer
Core
Lead electrical post-silicon validation and characterization for high-speed and power-intensive silicon devices, driving resolution of performance issues and providing feedback to influence future design specifications.
Role type
Senior IC electrical post-silicon characterization and validation engineer
Builds
Silicon One hardware platforms for Cisco Switching, Routing, and Wireless products
Domain
Semiconductor hardware validation, high-speed digital/analog circuits, optical-electrical interfaces
Required skills
silicon and package characterization, hardware bring-up, multi-disciplinary system-level validation, high-speed oscilloscope usage, VNA operation, TDR analysis, phase noise analysis, ASIC bring-up on EVBs, SerDes validation, high-speed clock and voltage domain analysis, Python scripting for validation automation
Preferred skills
root-cause analysis across silicon/package/PCB, signal and power integrity analysis, high-speed optical-electrical validation, electro-optic integration, Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) bring-up, production flow and chip yield improvement
Technologies
Python, high-speed scopes, VNA, TDR, phase noise analyzers, EVBs, SerDes, optical eye-diagram analysis, BER testing
Responsibilities
Develop and execute test plans to validate silicon performance and reliability against specifications, analyze and interpret characterization data to guide design improvements, troubleshoot and resolve silicon performance and characterization issues, collaborate with architecture, design, and software teams to drive silicon validation from architecture through physical design and DFT
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
