Board Verification Engineer

Pay rate: $70.00/hr to $75.00/hr

Location: Austin, TX (onsite)

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.