Senior Hardware Validation Engineer Bring-Up, Debug & Test Leadership

Centific; Penang; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Centific in Penang is seeking a Verification Engineer to own electrical and system verification across subsystems, develop comprehensive test plans, and define coverage criteria for prototype builds. You will collaborate with design, firmware, and TPM teams to ensure verification integrity and timely delivery.

The role includes bringing up prototypes, characterizing power, SI, memory/storage, sensors, and thermal domains, documenting results, and mentoring junior engineers while traveling

Qualifications

• Experience owning electrical/system verification across subsystems.
• Ability to develop high‑level test plans and define coverage.
• Strong root‑cause analysis and issue classification skills.
• Experience documenting test results with traceability to requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical and system verification for assigned subsystems: develop high-level test plans, define test priorities and coverage, and set entry/exit criteria per build.
• Take operational and technical ownership of verification activities at CM and vendor labs ensuring measurement techniques, setup integrity, and documentation quality.
• Execute bring-up, characterization, and debug of prototype hardware across power, signal integrity, memory/storage, sensors, thermal, and system coexistence domains.
• Drive failures to root cause and classify them; file high-quality bugs with steps, IDs, artifacts, and gate impact.
• Capture complete metadata for every test run and maintain traceability to requirements.
• Serve as communication bridge between engineers in the US and verification teams in-region; report status in triages and reviews.
• Partner with EE design, FW, thermal, mechanical, and TPM to close verification gaps and influence design for testability.
• Improve verification capability over time through procedure improvements and test automation.
• Mentor junior/contingent verification engineers in region.
• Domestic and regional travel as needed (up to ~30%).

Skills

Electrical verification

System verification

Test planning

Root cause analysis

Bug reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentorship

Travel readiness

Job description

Centific in Penang is seeking a Verification Engineer to own electrical and system verification across subsystems, develop comprehensive test plans, and define coverage criteria for prototype builds. You will collaborate with design, firmware, and TPM teams to ensure verification integrity and timely delivery.

The role includes bringing up prototypes, characterizing power, SI, memory/storage, sensors, and thermal domains, documenting results, and mentoring junior engineers while traveling