What are the responsibilities and job description for the Validation Engineer position at Saicon Consultants Inc.?
Title: SerDes Validation Engineer Contractor
Location: San Jose, CA
Duration: 12 months contract
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develops characterization and silicon validation plans for high speed transceivers
- Defines methodologies for characterization and silicon validation of high speed serial systems
- Characterize high speed SERDES with automated flows
- Data analysis and create characterization reports
- Correlation of pre-silicon results with silicon measurements
- Drives direct and cross-functional teams to expand capability, productivity and effectiveness to deliver improvements in cost, quality and manufacturability
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Experience in characterizing analog front-end
- PLL phase noise measurement, traPLL, CDR, TX/RXnsmitter output jitter measurement, receiver jitter tolerance measurement
- Hands on experience in laboratory environment, using lab equipment such as sampling oscilloscope, high performance BERT, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, BERT scopes, function/pulse generator
- Experience in transceiver electrical compliance testing (PCIE, IEEE 802.3, OIF-CEI)
- Experience in using automated methodologies to maximize use of equipment
- Experience working with FPGA and/or SOC Architectures
- Understanding of PCB schematic and layout
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and debugging skills
- Experience in protocol testing (PCIE, SATA, SGMII, 100GBASE-X)
- Skills: Verilog, Python, Perl, TCL
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- BSEE/MSEE with 0-2 years of experience in product characterization or validation field