Board Verification Engineer

Infotree Global Solutions; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 117,096 - 123,984; Part time

Job summary

A leading semiconductor company in Austin, TX is seeking a Mid-Senior level engineer to validate GPU pre-silicon and post-silicon PCBA designs. The role involves defining test plans, conducting laboratory work, and collaborating with various disciplines to address design requirements. Candidates should have strong knowledge in power electronics, experience with industry protocols, and proficiency in using electronic testing tools. This contract position offers competitive hourly rates.

Qualifications

• Excellent understanding of multiphase power converters.
• Adept at using electronic testing equipment.
• Proficient in documenting experimental findings.
• Knowledge of FPGA and CPLD development.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute validation test plans for GPU PCBA.
• Collaborate across disciplines on requirements and risks.
• Conduct laboratory tests to verify compliance to specifications.
• Support teams during board development phases.

Skills

Familiarity with low-speed industry standard protocols

High-speed interface characterization

Experience with oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers

Documenting experimental results

Knowledge of power electronics fundamentals

Strong analytical communication skills

Leadership and mentoring skills

Job description

Base pay range

$85.00/hr – $90.00/hr

Technical Requirements

• Familiarity with low-speed industry standard protocols such as I2C, SPI, I3C, SVI2, SVI3 and for the high-speed industry standard protocols such as PCIe Gen 5.
• High-speed interface characterization.
• Demonstrated ability to work with oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes, electronic loads, and protocol analyzers as well as adept at intuitive reasoning to explain and correct unexpected results.
• Proficient at documenting experimental results in a structured manner for ease of reference.
• Experience with hardware, firmware, management firmware, and/or software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a system.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and execute the Datacenter GPU pre-silicon and post-silicon PCBA validation test plans and schedule with cross-functional engagement from the various design teams, program leads and program managers.
• Develop platform validation plans and flows while ensuring end-to-end coverage.
• Develop and implement debug strategies to drive resolution of issues across all phases of the program.
• Collaborate across multiple disciplines (hardware, firmware, software, and/or data center infrastructure) on design requirements and risks, design reviews, proof of concept projects, assessing system tradeoffs and impact on performance, identifying dependencies for validation and manufacturing tests.
• Through comprehensive laboratory work, test new designs to verify compliance to original specifications.
• Support various teams with board and system related issues during the characterization and launch phases of new board development.
• Set-up and utilize dashboards for tracking execution tasks, issues identified, gaps in relevant processes, proposed design changes and lessons learned.
• Review converter topologies and select power components like PWM controllers, power transistors and passive filter elements such as magnetics and capacitors.
• Provide comprehensive yet concise execution and issue updates to management.

Preferred Experience

• Excellent understanding of the fundamentals of power electronics with special emphasis on multiphase power converters.
• Familiarity with low-speed industry standard protocols such as I2C, SPI, I3C, SVI2, SVI3 and for the high-speed industry standard protocols such as PCIe Gen 5.
• High-speed interface characterization.
• Demonstrated ability to work with oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes, electronic loads, and protocol analyzers as well as adept at intuitive reasoning to explain and correct unexpected results.
• Proficient at documenting experimental results in a structured manner for ease of reference.
• Experience with hardware, firmware, management firmware, and/or software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a system.
• FPGA and CPLD development knowledge.
• Knowledge of schematic capture, circuit design, routing constraints definition, layout review and simulation.
• Power and signal integrity analysis.
• Strong analytical, communication and collaboration skills.
• Must excel in a dynamic team working environment and independently drive tasks to completion.
• Leadership and mentoring skills an asset.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Semiconductor Manufacturing

Location

Austin, TX

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