Silicon Validation Engineer – Tape-Out & Test Automation

Lyte; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Healthcare coverage

401(k)

Flexible vacation

Cross-functional team

Cutting-edge technology

Job summary

Lyte is seeking a hands-on Validation Engineer to bring up custom silicon from power-on through production readiness within a cross-functional team spanning analog, logic, and package design.

You will own bring-up, debugging, and end-to-end characterization, building automated test scripts in Python/Perl for high-throughput validation and ensuring compliance of high-speed interfaces and mixed-signal performance at the bench.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering from a top research university.
• 2–8 years of hands-on chip or system bring-up and validation experience.
• Proficiency in Python or Perl for test automation and data analysis.
• Experience validating high-speed serial interfaces.
• Understanding of analog fundamentals such as signal integrity, transmission lines, feedback theory, and voltage/current source compliance testing.
• Understanding of frequency domain and time-domain measurements and correlations.
• Solid analog circuit knowledge: bias networks, LDOs, PLLs, ADCs/DACs, and mixed signal interfaces – and the hands-on instincts to debug them at the bench.
• Ability to read and interpret schematics, layout files, and datasheet specs.

Responsibilities

• Lead silicon bring-up for new silicon tape-outs – first power-on through functional validation
• Develop and execute structured test plans covering functional, electrical, and performance validation
• Characterize analog and digital circuit behavior against the product spec
• Build automated test infrastructure using Python/Perl for high-throughput characterization
• Debug complex mixed-signal devices – power, clocking, mixed-signal interfaces using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and protocol analyzers
• Validate high-speed interfaces including signal integrity analysis
• Root-cause issues; distinguish design vs. process vs. board-level failures

Skills

Python

Perl

Chip bring-up

System validation

Analog/digital circuits

Signal integrity

High-speed interfaces

Schematic reading

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Spectrum analyzers

Protocol analyzers

Job description

Lyte is seeking a hands-on Validation Engineer to bring up custom silicon from power-on through production readiness within a cross-functional team spanning analog, logic, and package design.

You will own bring-up, debugging, and end-to-end characterization, building automated test scripts in Python/Perl for high-throughput validation and ensuring compliance of high-speed interfaces and mixed-signal performance at the bench.