Staff ASIC Validation Engineer

Weekday AI · Hyderabad, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-30

Salary: INR 100,000–5,000,000

Workplace: on_site

Department: Weekday's Client via platform

Description

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 100000 - Rs 5000000 (ie INR 1 - 50 LPA)

Min Experience: 6+ years
Location: Hyderabad
JobType: full-time

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead first‑silicon bring‑up, board validation, and early silicon debug.
• Develop and complete detailed electrical characterization plans covering DC, AC, parametric, and functional measurements.
• Characterize high‑speed interfaces such as DDR/LPDDR, SerDes, MIPI, UFS, or custom Micron PHYs.
• Perform post‑silicon electrical characterization of ASIC/SoC/Memory products across process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) corners.
• Conduct lab measurements using equipment such as Oscilloscopes, BERTs, VNAs, Spectrum analyzers, Waveform generators, and support tools.
• Involve in Board design activities with team to gather and place custom requirements as per Chaz.
• Perform signal integrity (SI), power integrity (PI), Jitter, Eye‑diagram, and compliance testing.
• Debug silicon issues related to timing, noise, stability, margin loss, and functional failures.
• Analyze failures and recommend design, firmware, or test fixes.
• Develop Python/MATLAB-based automation for measurements, data collection, and analysis.
• Process large volumes of lab and silicon data to extract trends, margins, and correlations.
• Generate concise characterization reports with clear conclusions and recommendations.
• Work closely with design, pre‑silicon verification, product engineering, firmware, test, and systems teams.
• Correlate post‑silicon results with simulation and pre‑silicon expectations to identify root causes of gaps.
• Work closely with Design Team & propose enhancements and design changes to tackle next generation challenges.
• Contribute to silicon learning documentation and guidelines for comprehensive Chaz activities.

Required Qualifications:

• 6 to 8 years of Industry experience in High Speed Post Silicon Electrical Characterization Domain
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical / Electronics or related field.
• Strong understanding of CMOS fundamentals, analog/digital circuits, and high‑speed interfaces.
• Hands‑on experience with High-Speed Post‑silicon electrical characterization.
• Deep knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, timing analysis, jitter, noise coupling, Channel loss & SerDes.
• Proficiency in lab equipment operation and debugging methodologies.
• Experience with scripting and automation (Python preferred).
• Background in (DDR/LPDDR/PCIe), SerDes, or high‑speed PHY characterization.
• Familiarity with ATE correlation, compliance specs, and JEDEC/PCI-SIG standards.
• Experience owning end‑to‑end characterization of a subsystem or interface.
• Proven track record of silicon issue root‑cause analysis and resolution

Must-have skills

asic, Characterization, Post Silicon Validation

Good-to-have skills

Chaz, Python, PCIe

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