Post-Silicon Validation Engineer
Spectraforce
San Diego, California
a month ago
Job Description
Job Title: Post-Silicon Validation Engineer
Location: San Diego, CA
Work Mode: 100% Onsite
Work Hours: 40 hours/week, 1st Shift (To be flexible for occasional 2nd shift work and occasional weekend work)
Duration: 1 year, 10+ months
Travel/Driving Requirement: May involve less than 2 hours of driving per week between campus buildings using a personal vehicle or company shuttle
Physical Requirement: Ability to carry/move hardware or equipment up to 20 lbs
Summary:
We are seeking to add an experienced and versatile engineer to our team, to execute & streamline our validation processes. To fit this role, you should have hands on experience with post-silicon validation, automation and excellent problem-solving & communication skills. Job responsibilities include:
Responsibilities:
• Strong grasp of concepts & workings of SoCs, SOC architectures, CPUs, DDRs, on chip bus & networking protocols & embedded system concepts
• Strong understanding of challenges with DDR, high-speed peripherals/buses, GPIOs
• Strong knowledge of test platforms for SOCs and testing methodologies
• Manage recurring High Volume Validation tasks such as execution of tests, scheduling regression jobs, analyzing results and triaging failures
• Debugging test failures & platforms
• Strong aptitude to improve existing & drive new stress testing methodologies
• Develop automation solutions for operations and to scale SOC validation and integration activities.
• Provide Lab support for HW configuration management & logistics
• Manage jobs for robotic handlers
• Lab IT activities
• Comprehend & refine processes by interacting with Project managers, leads, users & software engineers. Create end-to-end automation requirements & solutions.
• Formalize and document validation processes (inputs, flowchart, outputs, dashboards) working with stakeholders & publish results.
• Attend and drive periodic team meetings & ad hoc brainstorming sessions
• Manage lab infrastructure challenges
• Customer support
Top 5 Required Skills:
1. ?Experience with post-silicon enabling, bring-up , analyze failures at the embedded platform level, debugging low level software and hardware issues & debug tools including JTAG
2. Using Lab Equipment (Logic Analyzer, Scope, Signal Generator, Thermal Chambers, TCUs etc.)
3. Board level expertise
4. Automation
5. IT Skills – PCs, SW configurations
6. Excellent communication skills
Technologies:
1. JTAG/Lauterbach
2. SOC knowledge
3. Compiler toolchain for embedded SW like LLVM or GCC
4. Python, Object Oriented Programming, Programming Concepts
5. Jenkins, Jira, Splunk or similar web-based enterprise/BI applications
Preferred:
1. Basic understanding of power and performance
2. Knowledge of TCU, PVT, Fmax, Vmin test methodology and hands-on experience
3. CPU and SoC architectures
4. Experience using Handlers/Automated pick & place machines
5. Program & logistics management experience
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field with 3-5 years of Systems Engineering or related experience
OR
Master’s degree in the same fields with 2-4 years of related experience
About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $53.51/hr.
Location: San Diego, CA
Work Mode: 100% Onsite
Work Hours: 40 hours/week, 1st Shift (To be flexible for occasional 2nd shift work and occasional weekend work)
Duration: 1 year, 10+ months
Travel/Driving Requirement: May involve less than 2 hours of driving per week between campus buildings using a personal vehicle or company shuttle
Physical Requirement: Ability to carry/move hardware or equipment up to 20 lbs
Summary:
We are seeking to add an experienced and versatile engineer to our team, to execute & streamline our validation processes. To fit this role, you should have hands on experience with post-silicon validation, automation and excellent problem-solving & communication skills. Job responsibilities include:
Responsibilities:
• Strong grasp of concepts & workings of SoCs, SOC architectures, CPUs, DDRs, on chip bus & networking protocols & embedded system concepts
• Strong understanding of challenges with DDR, high-speed peripherals/buses, GPIOs
• Strong knowledge of test platforms for SOCs and testing methodologies
• Manage recurring High Volume Validation tasks such as execution of tests, scheduling regression jobs, analyzing results and triaging failures
• Debugging test failures & platforms
• Strong aptitude to improve existing & drive new stress testing methodologies
• Develop automation solutions for operations and to scale SOC validation and integration activities.
• Provide Lab support for HW configuration management & logistics
• Manage jobs for robotic handlers
• Lab IT activities
• Comprehend & refine processes by interacting with Project managers, leads, users & software engineers. Create end-to-end automation requirements & solutions.
• Formalize and document validation processes (inputs, flowchart, outputs, dashboards) working with stakeholders & publish results.
• Attend and drive periodic team meetings & ad hoc brainstorming sessions
• Manage lab infrastructure challenges
• Customer support
Top 5 Required Skills:
1. ?Experience with post-silicon enabling, bring-up , analyze failures at the embedded platform level, debugging low level software and hardware issues & debug tools including JTAG
2. Using Lab Equipment (Logic Analyzer, Scope, Signal Generator, Thermal Chambers, TCUs etc.)
3. Board level expertise
4. Automation
5. IT Skills – PCs, SW configurations
6. Excellent communication skills
Technologies:
1. JTAG/Lauterbach
2. SOC knowledge
3. Compiler toolchain for embedded SW like LLVM or GCC
4. Python, Object Oriented Programming, Programming Concepts
5. Jenkins, Jira, Splunk or similar web-based enterprise/BI applications
Preferred:
1. Basic understanding of power and performance
2. Knowledge of TCU, PVT, Fmax, Vmin test methodology and hands-on experience
3. CPU and SoC architectures
4. Experience using Handlers/Automated pick & place machines
5. Program & logistics management experience
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field with 3-5 years of Systems Engineering or related experience
OR
Master’s degree in the same fields with 2-4 years of related experience
About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $53.51/hr.