Senior Hardware Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

Jobtailor; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior hardware validation engineer to lead hands-on post-silicon validation for networking ASICs and evaluation platforms in a San Jose lab. You will own early bring-up from first power-on to feature enablement and define validation plans across functionality, performance, and reliability.

You will drive lab readiness, test coverage strategy, and lab automation using Python while overseeing high-speed interfaces and complex signal integrity analyses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with 6+ years in post-silicon electrical validation or related lab-based silicon debug.
• Experience in electronics, digital logic, signal integrity and power integrity.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on post-silicon electrical validation in lab environments for networking ASICs and evaluation platforms.
• Own early-silicon bring-up activities from first power-on through feature enablement.
• Define, execute, and refine detailed hardware validation plans covering functionality, performance, and reliability.
• Drive validation readiness, lab infrastructure setup, and test coverage strategy.
• Lead power-on sequencing, reset strategy validation, clock bring-up, and strap configuration.
• Perform in-depth voltage, current, power integrity, and signal integrity analysis.
• Capture, analyze, and interpret waveforms, eye diagrams, jitter, BER, PDN measurements, power supply stability and noise.

Skills

Post-Silicon Validation

Hardware Bring-Up

Signal Integrity

High-Speed Measurement

Lab Automation

Python

Scripting for Lab Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master's degree in related field

PhD in related field

Tools

Oscilloscope

Logic Analyzer

Protocol Analyzer

BERT

VNA

Traffic Generators

Chambers

Chillers

Python

Job description

• Lead hands-on post-silicon electrical validation in lab environments for networking ASICs and evaluation platforms
• Own early-silicon bring-up activities from first power-on through feature enablement
• Define, execute, and refine detailed hardware validation plans covering functionality characterization, performance, and reliability
• Drive validation readiness, lab infrastructure setup, and test coverage strategy
• Lead power-on sequencing, reset strategy validation, clock bring-up, and strap configuration
• Perform in-depth voltage, current, power integrity (PDN), and signal integrity analysis
• Capture, analyze, and interpret waveforms, eye diagrams, jitter, BER, PDN measurements, power supply stability and noise
• Independently isolate and root-cause silicon, package, board, or signal integrity issues
• Lead validation of Ethernet MAC/PHY and high-speed interfaces such as PCIe and SerDes
• Oversee packet-level validation using traffic generators and protocol analyzers
• Validate system-level behavior under real-world networking workloads
• Advanced-level operation of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, VNAs, protocol analyzers, BERTs, and multimeters
• Develop and maintain lab automation using scripts and frameworks (e.g., Python)
• Plan and execute thermal testing using chambers and chillers across operating ranges

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of experience in post-silicon electrical validation, hardware bring-up and lab-based silicon debug, or Master's degree in related field and 3+ years of experience, or PhD in related field and 1+ years of experience
• Experience in electronics, digital logic, signal integrity, and power integrity
• Experience in high-speed measurement techniques (eye diagrams, BER, jitter, compliance testing)
• Experience with interfaces such as DDR5, USB 3.x, SGMII, PCIe, USB2.0, eMMC, SPI, MDIO, I2C, and UART
• Experience with Reading and Reviewing schematics and layout files for complex boards
• Preferred: Hands-on experience with silicon bring-up and post-silicon validation labs
• Scripting skills for lab automation and data analysis (Python preferred)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in post-silicon electrical validation, hardware bring-up, and lab-based silicon debug, with a strong focus on high-speed measurement techniques and scripting for lab automation. Proficient in analyzing signal integrity and power integrity while leading validation efforts for networking ASICs and interfaces.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Post-Silicon Electrical Validation
• Hardware Bring-Up
• Signal Integrity Analysis
• High-Speed Measurement Techniques
• Scripting for Lab Automation

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Electrical Validation
• Hardware Debug
• Signal Integrity
• Power Integrity
• High-Speed Interfaces
• Schematic Review
• Lab Automation
• Thermal Testing
• Feature Enablement
• Performance Characterization

Industry Keywords

• Networking ASICs
• Ethernet MAC/PHY
• PCIe
• DDR5
• USB 3.x
• SGMII
• EMMC
• SPI
• MDIO
• I2C

Tools & Technologies

• Oscilloscope
• Logic Analyzer
• Protocol Analyzer
• BERT
• VNA
• Traffic Generators
• Chambers
• Chillers
• Python