Semi-Conductor System Validation Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Understand the standards and specifications, hardware and software operations and end to end features of the automotive connectivity and display solutions
• Participate in the architectural discussions and provide innovative solutions during the development of the SOC
• Responsible for the development of the functional validation plan and test programs for complex high-performance SOC
• Own SOC validation tasks on both emulation and post-silicon platforms, ensuring design quality and conformance with the standards and specifications

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering or computer science
• 5+ years of experience in validating complex silicon, using emulation platforms, chip bring up, familiarity with lab equipment is required
• Proven ability to thrive in a small, agile engineering team, taking initiative and handling evolving technical challenges, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Deep understanding of SOC architecture, embedded systems, digital IC design, hardware/software partition
• Prior working experience of display technologies such as MIPI DSI, Display port or HDMI would be a major plus
• Background in computer networking, ethernet, packet processing or understanding of networking protocols will be major plus
• Knowledge of embedded processor and firmware operation, processor sub-system, such as ARM cortex-A/M/R or RISC-V would be a plus
• Familiarity with industry standard hardware interfaces, such as Ethernet/PCIe/USB/SPI/I2C would be a plus
• Proficiency in C/C++, Python, or other relevant hardware programming and scripting languages
• Strong analytical and debugging skills across hardware/software boundaries

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Discussion with system engineers on SoC architecture and feedback on optimization.
  
  
• Work on SoC integration; system block development, e.g., power management, clock/reset, system register, test control, PinMux, etc.
  
  
• Discussion with synthesis engineer and back-end engineer on design optimization.
  
   
• SoC DFT support.
  
  
• SoC verification plan and SoC verification support.
  
  

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electronic engineering with ASIC design experience.
  
  
• Knowledge of ASIC design flow
• Experience in RTL coding, RTL and gate-level debug
• Understanding of DFT, timing and power requirements
• Familiar with UNIX/ Linux environment and scripting
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge on mixed-signal design would be an advantage.