Post Silicon Hardware Validation Staff Engineer

Hardware Validation & Characterization

• Perform bench validation and electrical characterization of high-speed mixed-signal memory interface devices.
• Execute silicon bring-up and hardware debugging from first silicon through production release.
• Measure and characterize critical electrical timing jitter voltage and signal integrity parameters.
• Utilize advanced laboratory instrumentation including:
  • High-bandwidth oscilloscopes
  • BERTs (Bit Error Rate Testers)
  • High-speed pattern generators
  • Network analyzers
  • Logic analyzers
  • High-precision power supplies
• Apply advanced measurement techniques including:
  • De-embedding
  • High-impedance probing
  • Differential probing
  • Eye diagram analysis
  • Jitter analysis
  • Noise characterization
• Debug complex hardware issues involving signal integrity timing margins power delivery termination networks PCB effects and package interactions.
• Correlate bench measurements with simulation and design expectations to improve silicon performance.

Design Collaboration

• Work directly with Analog Mixed-Signal Digital SI/PI Package and Product Engineering teams.
• Support root-cause analysis of silicon issues discovered during validation.
• Drive hardware-based debug using systematic electrical measurements rather than software-only analysis.
• Recommend design improvements based on laboratory characterization data.

Data Analysis & Documentation

• Analyze characterization results to identify failure mechanisms and performance trends.
• Develop repeatable validation methodologies and characterization procedures.
• Document test methods hardware setups measurement assumptions and validation results.
• Present technical findings to design product and executive engineering teams.

Note: Python or similar scripting languages are used primarily for automating test execution and processing measurement datanot for software development.

Qualifications :

Required Skills

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• 8 years of hands-on laboratory experience validating high-speed semiconductor devices.
• Strong background in:
  • High-speed analog and mixed-signal circuits
  • Hardware validation
  • Silicon characterization
  • Silicon bring-up
  • Post-silicon validation
• Extensive experience with:
  • Oscilloscopes (20GHz preferred)
  • BERT systems
  • High-speed probing
  • Signal integrity measurements
  • Compliance testing
  • Eye diagram analysis
  • Jitter measurements
• Strong understanding of:
  • Signal integrity
  • Transmission lines
  • Reflection and termination
  • Crosstalk
  • Equalization
  • Power integrity
  • High-speed PCB design fundamentals
• Experience debugging hardware at the board package and silicon level.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in a laboratory environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience with DDR5 DDR4 LPDDR5 MRDIMM RDIMM or memory buffer devices.
• Experience validating:
  • Memory PHYs
  • High-speed SerDes
  • PCIe
  • USB
  • Ethernet
  • Other multi-Gbps interfaces
• Familiarity with:
  • IBIS-AMI
  • HyperLynx
  • ADS
  • HFSS
  • Sigrity
  • Cadence SI tools
• Experience correlating silicon measurements to simulation models.
• Python MATLAB or LabVIEW for test automation and data processing.

Additional Information :

What Were Looking For

We are specifically seeking engineers with a strong hardware background who spend the majority of their time in the lab performing electrical measurements and debugging silicon.

This role is not a software development firmware embedded software machine learning or data science position.

Candidates with demonstrated experience in:

• Post-silicon validation
• Component characterization
• Electrical engineering laboratories
• High-speed memory interfaces
• Signal integrity
• Mixed-signal hardware debugging

will be highly preferred.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries we offer the opportunity to work on worldleading technology for Automotive Industrial Infrastructure and IoT shaping a safer healthier greener and smarter future.

At Renesas TAGIE is our culture grounded in being Transparent Agile Global Innovative and Entrepreneurial. It shapes how we work grow and deliver on our purpose together. This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Are you ready to join our team and shape the future with us

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex race religion national origin gender gender identity gender expression age sexual orientation military status veteran status or any other basis protected by law. For more information please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time