Senior Hardware Validation Engineer (IC5)

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

About Centific Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse, high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to empower the Magnificent Seven and our enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. Our team includes more than 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We harness the power of an integrated solution ecosystem—comprising industry-leading partnerships and 1.8 million vertical domain experts in more than 230 markets to create contextual, multilingual, pre-trained datasets; fine-tuned, industry-specific LLMs; and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. Our zero-distance innovation solutions for GenAI can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring solutions to market 50% faster. Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and industry leaders by bringing best practices in GenAI to unicorn innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these organizations unlock significant business value by deploying GenAI at scale, helping to ensure they stay at the forefront of technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets.

About Job 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 (Proto, EVT, DVT, PVT, MP).
• Take operational and technical ownership of verification activities at CM and vendor labs ensure adherence to measurement techniques, setup integrity, and quality of documentation.
• Execute and oversee 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 as product, test, environment, config, or handling issues; file high-quality bugs with repro steps, build/config IDs, artifacts, and gate impact.
• Capture complete metadata for every test run (unit SNs, OS build, FW version, tool build, chamber ID, ambient conditions) and maintain traceability to requirements.
• Serve as the communication bridge between engineers in the US and verification teams in-region; represent verification status in daily triage, bug syncs, and build readiness reviews.
• Partner with EE design, FW, thermal, mechanical, and TPM counterparts to close verification gaps and influence design for testability.
• Improve verification capability over time — test procedures, reporting, and automation of repetitive measurements.
• Mentor junior and contingent worker verification engineers in region.
• Domestic and regional travel as needed (up to ~30%).

Centific is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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