Senior / Staff Hardware Electrical Validation Engineer, Astera Labs

• Demonstrated strong skills in electronic circuit analysis, comprehensive testing and debug
• Bachelor degree in EE with 3+ years of experience in hardware test or design
• Expert understanding of design and test for power regulators, PDNs, Bode, clock generators
• Ability to produce test description from a schematic design, and execute and document results
• Demonstrated knowledge of the full hardware product lifecycle from Project Kick-off to RTM
• Lab equipment for hardware test - oscilloscopes, e-loads, VNA, TDR, environmental chambers, etc
• Automating lab equipment to optimize test processes, Python preferred
• Measurements of high-speed interfaces - PCIe, DDR, 25/50G/100G SERDES, etc

Desirable

• As a Senior/Staff Hardware Electrical Validation Engineer you will join the Hardware Electrical Validation team at Astera Labs, linking between the Hardware Electrical Design teams and Post-Silicon Electrical Validation teams, among others
• Support the Hardware Electrical Design teams with de-risking circuits and modules from project kick-off to gerber out
• Develop comprehensive hardware electrical validation plans using correct test methods and processes
• Bring up the PCBAs upon arrival in the lab, and execute the electrical validation plans to validate all circuits on the board
• Debug complex multi-point failures in hardware - power regulators, DPMs, clock synthesizers, digital control paths, I2C, SPI, etc
• Rework components on the PCBAs to unblock debugging activities
• Pre-empt and de-risk system validation architectures - collaborate with the System Validation teams
• Support hardware activities in auxiliary teams - Post-Silicon Electrical Validation, Product Apps, System Validation, FAEs, etc
• Support the new designs using knowledge of existing products to de-risk new features and requirements
• Self-informed of new industry test standards and equipment to introduce modern testing methodologies
• Specify test equipment, develop test fixtures, help improve hardware lab functions
• This role is not post-silicon electrical validation; it is electrical validation of PCBAs and related hardware products