Lead FPGA Silicon Validation Engineer – High-Speed I/O

Altera; Bayan Lepas; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera is seeking a hands-on Silicon Validation Engineer to lead bring-up and validation of high‑speed analog I/O and PHY designs, including DDR, LPDDR, and MIPI interfaces, clocking circuits, and voltage regulators.

You will own end-to-end validation across multiple silicon programs, develop scalable validation methodologies, test setups, and automation frameworks, and perform post‑silicon characterization with advanced lab equipment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Industry experience in post-silicon validation, silicon bring‑up, or PHY design.
• Hands‑on expertise with validating high‑speed interfaces and PHYs such as DDR/LPDDR, MIPI and GPIO.
• Strong understanding of high‑speed signal integrity, power integrity, timing, and analog/mixed‑signal behaviors.
• Proficiency with lab equipment including oscilloscopes, BERTs, protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, and pattern generators.
• Experience in post‑silicon debug and issue resolution across silicon, package, board, firmware, and software domains.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g., Python, Perl, TCL, C/C++) for validation automation and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end high-speed I/O and PHY validation across multiple silicon programs.
• Develop scalable validation methodologies, test setups, and automation frameworks.
• Execute post‑silicon bring‑up, characterization, and debug using advanced lab equipment.
• Influence board design on high-speed channel implementation, stack‑up, routing, and I/O termination.
• Collaborate with firmware teams to develop test algorithms and validate calibration flows.
• Partner with circuit design teams to review circuit architectures and drive design improvements based on silicon results.
• Lead root‑cause analysis and cross‑functional debug.

Skills

High-speed validation

Test automation

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Lab proficiency

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

BERTs

Protocol analyzers

Logic analyzers

Pattern generators

Job description

Altera is seeking a hands-on Silicon Validation Engineer to lead bring-up and validation of high‑speed analog I/O and PHY designs, including DDR, LPDDR, and MIPI interfaces, clocking circuits, and voltage regulators.

You will own end-to-end validation across multiple silicon programs, develop scalable validation methodologies, test setups, and automation frameworks, and perform post‑silicon characterization with advanced lab equipment.