Senior Manager - Silicon Characterization

15+ years of relevant industry experience

5+ years of managing small to medium size teams

8+ years of experience in product characterization or silicon validation with emphasis on digital and mixed-signal circuits

5+ years of experience in characterization and / or validation of serial protocols (PCIe / 10GBaseKR / XAUI / SATA / etc.) and / or memory interfaces ( DDR5 / 4 / etc., LPDDR5 / 4 / etc.)

Expertise in characterization of SoC, processors, PLL, Oscillator s, etc.

Firmware Development on multi-core microcontrollers or processors (ARM / RISC-V or similar)

Experience working in a laboratory environment, using lab equipment such as BERTs, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, function generators, etc.

Experience in evaluation of various laboratory equipment such as BERTs, Oscilloscopes, etc.

In-depth knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including CMOS device operation and characteristics

Experience in board design fundamentals, signal and power integrity

Experience with Verilog or VHDL

Exposure to automated characterization flows to maximize use of equipment

Critical thinking, creative, problem-solving, forward planning, and strategic thinking

Must have strong self-learning ability, leadership, decision making, enjoy working in teams

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Result driven, Quality and goal oriented

Analytical and organized

Preferred Skills :

Knowledge of JTAG protocol highly desirable

Working knowledge of SOC and / or FPGA Architectures

AMD / Xilinx (Vivado, ISE), or Intel / Altera (Quartus) tools

Working knowledge of at least 1 of the following languages : Java / C / C++, Visual Basic and / or Perl

Analog and mixed signal circuit design. Working experience with Analog and / or digital systems is an advantage