Senior Post-Silicon Hardware Validation Engineer

Renesas; Johns Creek (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Renesas seeks an experienced Post Silicon Hardware Validation Staff Engineer to characterize and validate next-generation high-speed memory interface silicon. The role is hands-on and lab-focused, with emphasis on electrical measurements, silicon bring-up, signal integrity, and debugging of high-speed mixed-signal devices.

The ideal candidate will perform bench validation, validate memory interfaces from first silicon to production, and work with Analog, Mixed-Signal, Digital, and SI/PI teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• 8+ years of hands-on laboratory experience validating high-speed semiconductor devices.
• Strong background in high-speed analog and mixed-signal circuits, hardware validation, silicon characterization, bring-up and post-silicon validation.

Responsibilities

• Perform bench validation and electrical characterization of high-speed mixed-signal 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.
• Utilize advanced laboratory instrumentation including high-bandwidth oscilloscopes, BERTs, high-speed pattern generators, network analyzers, logic analyzers, and power supplies.
• Apply measurement techniques such as de-embedding, high-impedance probing, differential probing, eye diagram analysis, jitter analysis, and noise characterization.
• Debug complex hardware issues involving signal integrity, timing margins, power delivery, termination networks, PCB effects, and package interactions.
• Correlate bench measurements with simulations and design expectations to improve silicon performance.
• Work with Analog, Mixed-Signal, Digital, SI/PI, Package, and Product Engineering teams; support root-cause analysis; drive hardware-based debug; and recommend design improvements.

Job description

Renesas seeks an experienced Post Silicon Hardware Validation Staff Engineer to characterize and validate next-generation high-speed memory interface silicon. The role is hands-on and lab-focused, with emphasis on electrical measurements, silicon bring-up, signal integrity, and debugging of high-speed mixed-signal devices.

The ideal candidate will perform bench validation, validate memory interfaces from first silicon to production, and work with Analog, Mixed-Signal, Digital, and SI/PI teams.