Memory Electrical Validation Engineer

Job Description

• Define electrical validation strategy & specifications for IO interfaces to achieve optimized analog performance and meet product production goals.
• Validates circuit analog performance, electrical signal integrity for compliance to industry standard specifications, and system level margin for stable operation and production target prediction.
• Conducts multidisciplinary research in the design, development, testing, validation, and utilization of IO and mixed signal architectures inclusive of industry standard datacom applications, custom Intel interfaces, and RF systems implementations.
• Develops procedures, analysis, and designs for validation, validation infrastructure, and systems margin validation.
• Quickly analyse internal and external customer returns with technically sound experimentation, data analysis and succinct communication.
• Applies and uses independent evaluation to select components and equipment based on analysis of specifications, performance, and reliability.
• Performs debug to identify root causes and resolves all functional and triage failures for electrical issues.
• Applies understanding of DFT and DFM to collaborate with architecture, design, and pre-silicon validation teams to ensure capability to validate and test IO architecture implementations.
• Develops and mentors other technical leaders, grows the community, acts as a change agent, and role models Intel values.
• Aligns & champions organizational goals with technical vision, formulates technical strategy to deliver leading edge solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Electronic or Computer Science Engineering with at least 10 or more years of experience in electrical validation, post silicon validation , SoC / platform Research & development or any relevant field.
• Routinely able to lead cross-functional debug efforts.
• Post-silicon system level hardware and software validation techniques and debug skills.
• Working knowledge of Python or any form of scripting for hardware access or automation.
• Understanding of product lifecycle milestones & deliverables.
• Displays strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with data centric decision making.
• Excellent technical communication with both engineer & management level

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Memory IP post silicon validation is a plus.
• Good understanding of GDDR6, GDDR7, LPDDR5 or HBM memory topology, features and memory PHY circuit architectural analog design knowledge is a plus.
• Familiar with DRAM initialization, memory training and calibration process.
• Knowledge in memory analog tuning to improve system level margin.
• Possess hands on experience in post-silicon circuit electrical characterization activity, be it Bench Design Validation, Signal Integrity Validation, or System Margining Validation.
• Familiar with validation technique and electrical compliance requirement for high-speed memory system.
• Familiar with DFT usage in Electrical Validation environment.
• Familiar with measurement scope for high-speed signals.
• Proficiency in operating hardware measurement equipment and tool, for example: BERT, oscilloscope, sigtest eye diagram tool and etc

Inside this Business Group

The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here.

Working Model

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.