Senior Manager - Silicon Characterization

Connectpro Management Consultants; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Connectpro Management Consultants seeks a senior hardware validation engineer in Hyderabad to lead characterization of mixed-signal circuits and SoC/FPGA-related projects in a lab setting. You will coordinate protocol and memory-interface verification across teams.

The role requires strong fundamentals in EE, Verilog/VHDL, and vendor toolchains (Vivado/ISE/Quartus). Familiarity with PCIe, DDR variants, and lab equipment is essential for delivery and quality.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant industry experience.
• 5+ years of managing small to medium size teams.
• 8+ years of experience in product characterization or silicon validation with emphasis on digital and mixed-signal circuits.
• 5+ years of experience in characterization and/or validation of serial protocols (PCIe/10GBaseKR/XAUI/SATA/etc.) and/or memory interfaces (DDR5/4/etc., LPDDR5/4/etc.).
• Expertise in characterization of SoC, processors, PLL, Oscillators.
• Firmware development on multi-core microcontrollers or processors (ARM/RISC-V or similar).
• Experience with lab equipment such as BERTs, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, function generators.
• In-depth knowledge of EE fundamentals including CMOS device operation and characteristics.
• Experience in board design fundamentals, signal and power integrity.
• Experience with Verilog or VHDL.
• Exposure to automated characterization flows to maximize use of equipment.
• Critical thinking, creative, problem-solving, forward planning, and strategic thinking.
• Strong self-learning ability, leadership, decision making, teamwork.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Result driven, quality and goal oriented.
• Analytical and organized.

Skills

Industry experience

Team leadership

Silicon validation

Protocol characterization

Memory interfaces

SoC characterization

Firmware development

Lab equipment

EE fundamentals

Board design

HDL (Verilog/VHDL)

Automation workflows

Leadership

Communication

Analytical skills

JTAG

SOC/FPGA architectures

Vivado/ISE

Quartus

Java/C/C++/VB/Perl

Analog/mixed-signal design

Tools

Vivado

ISE

Quartus

Oscilloscope

Logic Analyzer

Spectrum Analyzer

BERT

Function Generator

Job description

• 15+ years of relevant industry experience
• 5+ years of managing small to medium size teams
• 8+ years of experience in product characterization or silicon validation with emphasis on digital and mixed-signal circuits
• 5+ years of experience in characterization and/or validation of serial protocols (PCIe/ 10GBaseKR/ XAUI/SATA/etc.) and/or memory interfaces (DDR5/4/etc., LPDDR5/4/etc.)
• Expertise in characterization of SoC, processors, PLL, Oscillators, etc.
• Firmware Development on multi-core microcontrollers or processors (ARM/RISC-V or similar)
• Experience working in a laboratory environment, using lab equipment such as BERTs, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, function generators, etc.
• Experience in evaluation of various laboratory equipment such as BERTs, Oscilloscopes, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including CMOS device operation and characteristics
• Experience in board design fundamentals, signal and power integrity
• Experience with Verilog or VHDL
• Exposure to automated characterization flows to maximize use of equipment
• Critical thinking, creative, problem-solving, forward planning, and strategic thinking
• Must have strong self-learning ability, leadership, decision making, enjoy working in teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Result driven, Quality and goal oriented
• Analytical and organized

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of JTAG protocol highly desirable
• Working knowledge of SOC and/or FPGA Architectures
• AMD/Xilinx (Vivado, ISE), or Intel/Altera (Quartus) tools
• Working knowledge of at least 1 of the following languages: Java/ C/C++, Visual Basic and/or Perl
• Analog and mixed signal circuit design. Working experience with Analog and/or digital systems is an advantage.