Electrical Engineer – ASIC Test & Validation

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About the Role

Responsibilities

• Develop schematics for precision analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, and high-speed interface boards.
• Perform PCB layout or work closely with layout resources to implement controlled-impedance, low-noise, and manufacturable designs.
• Support ASIC evaluation, characterization, wafer-level or packaged-device testing, and production test development.
• Create and maintain test hardware, evaluation boards, sensor boards, interconnect hardware, and supporting electronics.
• Bring up newly fabricated boards; perform systematic debug, root-cause analysis, rework, and design validation.
• Use oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, SMUs, power supplies, electronic loads, spectrum analyzers, and other lab instrumentation to characterize circuits and devices.
• Develop test procedures, test scripts, data-collection workflows, and clear engineering documentation.
• Analyze electrical test data and communicate results, anomalies, and implement corrective actions.
• Support component selection, BOM creation, schematic review, DFM/DFT review, and vendor/manufacturing communication.
• Contribute to signal-integrity, power-integrity, grounding, shielding, thermal, and reliability considerations in board-level designs.
• Maintain organized revision control and documentation for schematics, layouts, test results, and release packages.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• 0–3 years of relevant industry, internship, research, or substantial project experience.
• Familiarity with electronic schematic capture and PCB design workflows.
• Experience with OrCAD is preferred; Altium Designer, KiCad, Cadence Allegro, or comparable tools are also acceptable.
• Foundational understanding of analog and digital circuit design, including op amps, ADCs/DACs, power regulation, MOSFETs, clocking, and digital interfaces.
• Familiarity with PCB layout fundamentals, including component placement, return paths, grounding, decoupling, differential pairs, controlled impedance, and high-speed routing practices.
• Comfort working hands-on in a lab with electronic test equipment and soldering/rework tools.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and a methodical approach to isolating hardware and test issues.
• Ability to read component datasheets, application notes, schematics, and board fabrication/assembly documentation.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document experiments and communicate technical findings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Coursework, projects, internships, or experience involving semiconductor devices, ASICs, IC characterization, ATE, probe cards, or automated test.
• Familiarity with common interfaces such as SPI, I²C, UART, GPIO, JTAG, Ethernet, USB, LVDS, DDR, or SerDes concepts.
• Exposure to embedded hardware and firmware development, including microcontroller-based systems, board-support bring-up, peripheral interfaces, and hardware/firmware debug.
• Experience writing embedded C/C++ or Python for hardware control, test automation, data acquisition, and instrument communication.
• Familiarity with embedded development workflows and tools such as debuggers, JTAG/SWD, logic analyzers, serial consoles, and version control.
• Experience with common microcontroller platforms or families—such as STM32, Microchip, NXP, Nordic, TI, ESP32, or similar—is a plus.
• Exposure to Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW, or similar tools for test automation and data analysis.
• Experience with PCB fabrication and assembly release processes, including Gerbers/ODB++, stackups, DFM, and BOM management.
• Familiarity with soldering fine-pitch packages, board rework, or fixture assembly.
• Basic understanding of SI/PI concepts, low-noise measurement techniques, EMI/EMC considerations, or RF fundamentals.
• Experience using Git or other revision-control systems for engineering files, embedded firmware, and test software.
• Experience with STM32 microcontrollers and the STM32CubeIDE / STM32CubeMX development ecosystem is preferred.