Validation / Verification Engineer, Sr Staff -18261
On-siteNepean, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Lead first-silicon bring-up and validation for DDR6, DDR5, LPDDR6/X, LPDDR5/5X, MRDIMM, and HBM test chips and evaluation platforms. Develop and execute validation plans covering functionality, parametric characterization, margin analysis, and reliability testing across voltage, frequency, process, and temperature corners. Perform electrical characterization including eye diagram analysis, jitter measurements, timing margins, VREF optimization, power consumption, and signal integrity metrics. Drive systematic debug and root cause analysis of silicon, firmware, board, and test infrastructure issues using lab instrumentation and cross-functional collaboration. Build automated validation frameworks and reusable test infrastructure using Python, C/C++, and scripting tools to improve efficiency. Lead the development of complex multilayer PCB designs for silicon characterization platforms, validation boards, and customer evaluation kits. Generate characterization reports, present silicon performance data and debug findings to stakeholders and customers, and maintain validation documentation to support release readiness and customer engagements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering Physics, or related discipline
- 6+ years of semiconductor industry experience in silicon validation, characterization, test, or product engineering
- proven experience bringing up and validating complex mixed-signal or high-speed interface products
- Strong understanding of DDR/LPDDR/HBM protocols
- Strong understanding of high-speed interfaces
- Strong understanding of Interface IP/PHY architectures
- Strong understanding of digital and mixed-signal semiconductor design concepts
- Experience in PCB board design
- understanding of signal integrity
- understanding of power integrity concepts
- Hands-on experience with lab instrumentation including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, SMUs, pattern generators, and Automated Test Equipment (ATE)
- experience with test program generation
- Experience performing statistical analysis
- Experience performing correlation studies
- Experience performing margin analysis
- Experience performing failure analysis
- Experience performing root cause investigations
- ability to interpret large datasets
- ability to drive engineering decisions
- Experience with scripting any programming languages such as MATLAB/ Python/ Visual Basic/ TCL/ PERL
- Experience with C/C++
- Experience with test automation
- In-depth understanding of JEDEC standards
- In-depth understanding of automotive qualification standards
- In-depth understanding of specifications
- In-depth understanding of reliability testing
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with DDR5
- Experience with LPDDR6
- Experience with LPDDR5X
- Experience with HBM3
- Experience with HBM4
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