Validation Engineer - Austin, United States - TekWissen ®

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    Overview:

    TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. global company that specializes in manufacturing semiconductor devices used in computer processing. The company also produces flash memories, graphics processors, motherboard chip sets, and a variety of components used in consumer electronics goods.

    Job Title: Validation Engineer - Intermediate

    Work Location: Austin, Tx, 78735

    Duration: 8 Months

    Work Type: Contract

    Job Type: Onsite

    Pay Rate: $ /Hourly/W2

    Job Description:

    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Define, develop, and execute the Datacenter GPU pre-silicon and post-silicon PCBA validation test plans and schedule with cross-functional engagement from the various design teams, program leads and program managers.
    • Develop platform validation plans and flows while ensuring end to end coverage
    • Develop and implement debug strategies to drive resolution of issues across all phases of the program
    • Collaborate across multiple disciplines (hardware, firmware, software, and/or data center infrastructure) on design requirements and risks, design reviews, proof of concept projects, assessing system tradeoffs and impact on performance, identifying dependencies for validation and manufacturing tests.
    • Through comprehensive laboratory work, test new designs to verify compliance to original specifications.
    • Support various teams with board and system related issues during the characterization and launch phases of new board development.
    • Set-up and utilize dashboards for tracking execution tasks, issues identified, gaps in relevant processes, proposed design changes and, lessons learned.
    • Review converter topologies and select power components like PWM controllers, power transistors and passive filter elements such as magnetics and capacitors.
    • Provide comprehensive yet concise execution and issue updates to management.

    PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

    • Excellent understanding of the fundamentals of power electronics with special emphasis on multiphase power converters
    • Demonstrated ability to work with oscilloscopes, multi-meters, current probes, electronic loads, and protocol analyzers as well as adept at intuitive reasoning to explain and correct unexpected results
    • Proficient at documenting experimental results in a structured manner for ease of reference
    • Experience with hardware, firmware, management firmware, and/or software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a system
    • Ability to use circuit simulations tools such as PSPICE, LTSPICE, and SIMPLIS
    • FPGA and CPLD development knowledge
    • Knowledge of schematic capture, circuit design, routing constraints definition, layout review and simulation
    • Power and signal integrity analysis
    • Familiarity with the low-speed industry standard protocols such as I2C, SPI, I3C, SVI2, SVI3 and for the high-speed industry standard protocols such as PCIe Gen 5.
    • High-speed interface characterization
    • Test automation expertise using Perl/Tcl/Python/LabView
    • Strong analytical, communication and, collaboration skills
    • Must excel in a dynamic team working environment and independently drive tasks to completion.
    • Leadership and mentoring skills an asset.

    TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.