Senior Hardware Engineer - SoC Electrical Failure Analysis (Hybrid)
$165,000–$241,400 year
On-siteSan Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead and participate in failure analysis efforts to determine contributing factors and corrective actions for SoC electrical issues. Define and refine post-silicon validation plans covering functionality, performance characterization, and reliability while capturing and analyzing device waveforms, jitter, BER, and power supply stability. Validate system-level behavior under real-world networking workloads and contribute to chip screening test and observability software libraries using Python or C++. Engage in pre-silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, manufacturing support, and field issue resolution to ensure product reliability and improve yield.
Required Qualifications
- Live within commuting distance of the San Jose, CA office
- Commute to the office at least 3-5 days per week
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 6+ years of relevant experience
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 3+ years of relevant experience
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 1+ years of related work experience
- Electrical post-silicon validation (Vmin, leakage, PVT characterization, ...)
- SoC failure analysis
- Power and signal integrity
- High speed mixed-signal design
- DFT
- SRAM design and/or integration
- Experience in driving SoC failure analysis efforts
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in bringing up complex SoC
- Experience with electrical diagnostics and measurement equipment (Oscilloscopes, VNA, BERT, logic analyzers...)
- Experience in high-speed physical interfaces
- Experience in design for test (DFT)
- Experience in physical and/or logic design
- Experience in memory design and MBIST
- Experience with schematics and layout files for sophisticated electrical systems
- Software development experience with Python, C++ or similar language
- Understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols
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