Technical Lead (Silicon Validation)

Einfochips; Hyderabad, Chennai District, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Einfochips is seeking an experienced hardware validation engineer in Hyderabad to lead pre- and post-silicon validation for complex SiP platforms. You will drive board bring-up, debug, and plan test strategies, collaborating with RTL, firmware, and system teams to close issues efficiently.

Ideal candidates have 10–15 years of hands-on experience with SoC/MCU/ASIC bring-up, expertise in power/reset/clocking, and strong root-cause analysis skills.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of hands-on silicon bring-up and hardware validation.
• Experience with SoC/MCU/ASIC bring-up and functional validation.
• Power, reset, clocking, straps, and configuration debugging.
• Ability to read schematics and trace signals at pin level.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre & post-silicon functional validation activities for complex SoCs, MCUs, and ASICs.
• Drive board bring-up covering power, reset, clock, straps, fuses, hardware initialization, and JTAG debug.
• Develop and execute validation plans, test cases, and debug strategies for functional and system-level validation.
• Lead hardware debug and failure analysis with root-cause investigations of boot failures, system hangs, and data corruption.

Skills

Silicon bring-up

Board-level debugging

Protocol validation

Hardware failure analysis

Root-cause analysis

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

PCIe & protocols

Schematics reading

Mentoring

Education

BE/B.Tech in Electronics/Electrical/Embedded Systems/Computer Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic Analyzers

Protocol Analyzers

JTAG

Job description

What You\'ll Be Doing

• Lead pre & post-silicon functional validation activities for complex SoCs, MCUs, and ASICs.
• Drive board bring-up covering power, reset, clock, straps, fuses, hardware initialization, and JTAG debug.
• Develop and execute validation plans, test cases, and debug strategies for functional and system-level validation.
• Lead hardware debug and failure analysis by performing root cause investigations of boot failures, system hangs, data corruption, memory access issues, and intermittent hardware failures.
• Validate and debug interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, CAN/CAN FD, LIN, FlexRay, UART, I2C, and SPI.
• Perform Lab Validation & debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, bus sniffers, and JTAG.
• Validate SRAM/Flash and debug memory initialization, access, and data integrity issues.
• Read schematics and perform pin-level signal tracing to isolate hardware issues.
• Work with RTL/design, firmware, architecture, and system teams to identify root causes and drive issues to closure.
• Lead technical debug activities and mentor validation engineers.

Job Complexity

• Leads technical execution of silicon validation and hardware debug activities.
• Provides technical guidance on silicon bring-up, validation, failure analysis, and debug methodologies.
• Review validation plans, test methodologies, and debug approaches.
• Coordinates with cross-functional teams to resolve complex silicon and system-level issues.
• Drive issue tracking, validation metrics, and closure activities.
• Mentor junior engineers on silicon debug and validation best practices.

What Are We Looking For

• 10-15 years of strong hands-on expertise in silicon bring-up, board-level debugging, protocol validation, hardware failure analysis, and lab-based validation on real silicon platforms.
• Strong experience with SoC, MCU, or ASIC bring-up and functional validation.
• Hands-on experience with power, reset, clocking, straps, configuration errors.
• Experience debugging PCIe, Ethernet, CAN/CAN FD, LIN, FlexRay, UART, I2C, or SPI interfaces.
• Strong understanding of SRAM/Flash, register-level configuration, signal integrity, and hardware failure analysis.
• Proficiency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and other hardware debug equipment.
• Ability to read schematics and perform pin-level signal tracing.
• Strong root-cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading technical debug activities and mentoring engineers.

Education

• B.E./B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field.