Senior Hardware Validation & Silicon Bring-Up Engineer

Renesas Electronics Corporation; Johns Creek (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics Corporation is seeking a seasoned Hardware Validation & Characterization engineer to lead bench validation of high-speed memory interfaces. The role is hands-on, requiring deep expertise in electrical measurements, silicon bring-up, and signal integrity debugging in a lab environment.

You will collaborate with Analog, Mixed-Signal, Digital, SI/PI, Package, and Product Engineering teams to drive design improvements and document validation results for production release.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• 8+ years of hands-on lab experience validating high-speed semiconductor devices.
• Strong background in high-speed analog and mixed-signal circuits, hardware validation, silicon characterization and bring-up.
• Extensive experience with oscilloscopes, BERT systems, high-speed probing, SI measurements, and compliance testing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform bench validation and electrical characterization of high-speed memory interface devices.
• Execute silicon bring-up and hardware debugging from first silicon through production release.
• Measure and characterize critical electrical, timing, jitter, voltage, and signal integrity parameters.
• Collaborate with Analog, Mixed-Signal, Digital, SI/PI, Package, and Product Engineering teams.
• Document test methods, hardware setups, measurement assumptions, and validation results.

Skills

Lab experience

High-speed analog/mixed-signal

Hardware validation

Silicon bring-up

Debugging hardware

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in EE/CE

Tools

Oscilloscopes 20GHz+

BERT systems

High-speed probing

Eye diagram analysis

Jitter measurements

Job description

Renesas Electronics Corporation is seeking a seasoned Hardware Validation & Characterization engineer to lead bench validation of high-speed memory interfaces. The role is hands-on, requiring deep expertise in electrical measurements, silicon bring-up, and signal integrity debugging in a lab environment.

You will collaborate with Analog, Mixed-Signal, Digital, SI/PI, Package, and Product Engineering teams to drive design improvements and document validation results for production release.