MTS/Senior MTS/Principal Characterization Engineer

Efinix Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd.; Penang; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Efinix Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd. is seeking an experienced Post-Silicon Characterization Engineer to lead silicon characterization for FPGA products in Penang.

You will drive projects from plan and bring-up through PVT testing, data analysis, debugging, and closure, collaborating with Design, Software, Applications, and Quality teams. The role requires strong hands-on lab skills, and you will mentor junior engineers while coordinating with multiple internal and external stakeholders to ensure

Qualifications

• Over 15 years in FPGA post-silicon validation or characterization.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces or memory protocols (PCIe, DDR, MIPI, Ethernet).
• Hands-on lab equipment experience and automated data collection using scripting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute post-silicon characterization plans for PVT.
• Lead characterization projects from silicon checkout to final report.
• Characterize high-speed FPGA interfaces (PCIe Gen5, 25G Ethernet, LPDDR5/5x).
• Perform eye diagram, jitter, BER, and link-margin testing.
• Debug silicon, RTL, firmware, board, and test-setup issues.
• Correlate bench results with simulations and product specs.

Skills

FPGA post-silicon validation

Characterization planning

Data analysis

Python scripting

Lab skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electrical / Electronics Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

VNA

Power supplies

Pulse generator

Job description

MTS/Senior MTS/Principal Characterization Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Post-Silicon Characterization Engineer to lead silicon characterization for FPGA products.

The Engineer will drive characterization projects from planning and silicon bring-up through PVT testing, data analysis, debugging, technical review, and closure. The role requires strong hands-on lab skills, technical judgment, and effective collaboration with Design, Software, Applications, and Quality teams.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and execute comprehensive post-silicon characterization plans across process, voltage, and temperature (PVT).

Lead characterization projects from initial silicon checkout through final report and product readiness.

Characterize and validate FPGA high-speed interfaces such as:

• PCIe Gen5, 25G Ethernet, LPDDR5/5x

Perform electrical and timing measurements such as:

• Eye diagram and jitter analysis
• BER and link-margin testing
• Timing and frequency margin characterization

Debug silicon, RTL, firmware, board, and test-setup issues.

Correlate bench results with simulation, design expectations, and product specifications.

Use statistical methods to analyze silicon variation, margin, capability, and outliers.

Provide clear technical conclusions, risk assessments, and recommendations to project stakeholders.

Work closely with Design, Product Engineering, Test, Application, Package, Board, and Quality teams to drive issue resolution.

Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance during test planning, debugging, and data review.

Support external laboratory, equipment vendor, board vendor, and socket vendor coordination when required.

Prepare and present characterization results during technical and management reviews.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electrical / Electronics Engineering or related field.

15+ years’ experience in FPGA post-silicon validation or characterization, or high-speed interface testing.

Experience in at least one major high-speed or memory protocol (PCIe, DDR, MIPI, Ethernet, etc.).

Hands-on experience with lab equipment (BERT, high-bandwidth oscilloscopes, VNA, power supply, pulse generator, etc.).

Proficiency in Python or similar scripting for automation.

Ability to interpret schematics, datasheets, S-parameters, and simulation results.

Strong analytical thinking and structured documentation practices.

Experience leading validation efforts or mentoring junior engineers.

Automotive-grade validation experience (AEC-Q100) is a plus.

Co-founders Sammy Cheung and Tony Ngai formed EFinix in 2012 after spending over 25 years working at other semiconductor companies, including FPGA companies and other programmable providers. They began by inventing a unique, disruptive, flexible FPGA fabric, the Quantum™ architecture. Quantum is Efinix’s key technology: an FPGA fabric arranged in a simple block-based format with interspersed columns of RAM and multipliers or DSP blocks. This fabric is designed to be process and fab agnostic, as well as compatible with a true SoC design flow.

Efinix's high-performance Titanium FPGAs are built on a 16 nm process and feature an enhanced Quantum fabric that is custom-tailored for the computing demands of mainstream applications. This scalable platform targets markets from intelligent edge devices to industrial automation to vision systems to edge servers and communications.

The first-generation Trion® FPGAs are based on the patent-protected Quantum architecture. This family gives customers access to this key new FPGA fabric, enabling edge applications or high-volume applications such as mobile and IoT that need devices that are optimized for small packages, low power, and volume.

Efinix is a global company with offices worldwide. Our investors are an assortment of high-tech semiconductor and system vendors who saw value in our Quantum architecture and our team. Developing and producing FPGAs is not a simple matter, and it is imperative to have people who understand, and successfully create, both hardware and software. We have pulled together a strong team to meet this challenge.

Co-founders Sammy Cheung and Tony Ngai formed EFinix in 2012 after spending over 25 years working at other semiconductor companies, including FPGA companies and other programmable providers. They began by inventing a unique, disruptive, flexible FPGA fabric, the Quantum™ architecture. Quantum is Efinix’s key technology: an FPGA fabric arranged in a simple block-based format with interspersed columns of RAM and multipliers or DSP blocks. This fabric is designed to be process and fab agnostic, as well as compatible with a true SoC design flow.

Efinix's high-performance Titanium FPGAs are built on a 16 nm process and feature an enhanced Quantum fabric that is custom-tailored for the computing demands of mainstream applications. This scalable platform targets markets from intelligent edge devices to industrial automation to vision systems to edge servers and communications.

The first-generation Trion® FPGAs are based on the patent-protected Quantum architecture. This family gives customers access to this key new FPGA fabric, enabling edge applications or high-volume applications such as mobile and IoT that need devices that are optimized for small packages, low power, and volume.

Efinix is a global company with offices worldwide. Our investors are an assortment of high-tech semiconductor and system vendors who saw value in our Quantum architecture and our team. Developing and producing FPGAs is not a simple matter, and it is imperative to have people who understand, and successfully create, both hardware and software. We have pulled together a strong team to meet this challenge.