Post-Silicon FPGA Validation Engineer - Power & Timing

754 Altera Semiconductor Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd.; George Town; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

754 Altera Semiconductor Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd. in Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia, seeks a post-silicon validation engineer to drive timing and power validation for MCP FPGA devices.

You will bridge pre-silicon models to real silicon performance and develop validation patterns for advanced architectures. Key responsibilities include executing validation plans on ATE platforms, analyzing silicon data, and collaborating with global designers to optimize yield and speed binning while ensuring

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of hands-on post-silicon validation, test engineering, or hardware characterization.
• Practical experience in static/dynamic power measurement, timing characterization, and power-domain analysis for complex ICs or FPGAs.
• Hands-on experience with ATE tester platforms and scripting languages for automated test execution and data analysis.
• Solid understanding of digital logic design, advanced packaging (MCP), and programmable logic architectures.
• Strong data-driven problem solving with statistical methods.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute post-silicon validation plans to measure and analyze static/dynamic power consumption, power domains, and complex timing parameters across advanced FPGA architectures.
• Create, optimize, and debug FPGA validation pattern sets tailored for multi-chip packages (MCP) and core logic circuits.
• Drive test plans on various ATE tester platforms and bench setups to enable robust volume characterization and silicon bring-up.
• Analyze empirical silicon performance data to validate and correlate pre-silicon simulation and power/timing models against physical hardware results.
• Conduct deep-dive statistical data analysis to identify performance trends, supporting product speed and power binning strategies to maximize efficiency and yield.
• Partner with global chip designers, software model engineers, and test teams to debug silicon anomalies, analyze material composition impacts, and drive issue resolution.

Skills

Power measurement

Post-silicon validation

FPGA

ATE testing

Python/Perl/Tcl scripting

Data analysis

Digital logic

MCP packaging

Education

BS or MS in Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Tools

Python scripting

ATE testers

Tcl scripting

Data analysis tools

Bench equipment

Job description

754 Altera Semiconductor Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd. in Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia, seeks a post-silicon validation engineer to drive timing and power validation for MCP FPGA devices.

You will bridge pre-silicon models to real silicon performance and develop validation patterns for advanced architectures. Key responsibilities include executing validation plans on ATE platforms, analyzing silicon data, and collaborating with global designers to optimize yield and speed binning while ensuring