Senior Hardware Validation Engineer (IC5)

Centific; Penang; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Centific in Penang, Malaysia is seeking a Senior Hardware Validation Engineer (IC5) to own electrical and system verification of assigned subsystems, developing test plans and defining coverage criteria across proto to MP stages. You will lead bring-up, characterization, debug, and ensure documentation quality.

You will collaborate with EE design, FW, thermal, and TPM teams, drive root-cause analysis, and mentor junior engineers while traveling regionally up to 30%.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Own electrical and system verification for subsystems across proto to MP stages.
• Develop high-level test plans, define test priorities and coverage.
• Oversee bring-up, characterization, and debug of prototype hardware.
• Drive root-cause analysis and file high-quality bugs with repro steps and artifacts.
• Maintain complete metadata for each test run and traceability to requirements.
• Coordinate verification status between US and regional teams; mentor junior engineers.
• Travel regionally up to 30%.

Skills

Electrical verification

System verification

Test plan development

Root-cause analysis

Debug prototype hardware

Documentation quality

Mentor junior engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

## Senior Hardware Validation Engineer (IC5)Apply: Malaysia Office -Penang: Full time: Posted Today: JR108463**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 innovationTM 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 testplans, 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 labsensure 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, orhandling 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.