FPGA Test Engineer

Company: Micross Components
Location: Milpitas
Posted on: February 13, 2021

Job Description:

Micross STS is an independent test services company providing reliability and performance characterization services across a range of electronic components for use in extreme Space and Mil Aero applications.

The FPGA Test Engineer will work with engineering teams from top-tier Prime contractors and Government laboratories to devise software routines and hardware solutions to verify that such components meet or exceed their design criteria. Micross assignments invariably involve a small number of sophisticated and unique components - primarily VLSI ASICS, FPGA's and various high speed RF Components. This requires that the Senior Test Engineer has a broad range of software and hardware skills, plus the curiosity and mental ingenuity to think around problems.

The successful candidate will

• Develop and debug complex software programs to convert design validation vectors and drive complex test equipment.
• Create and validate characterization and production test hardware solutions.
• Test, validate, modify and redesign circuits to guarantee component margin to specification.
• Analyze and evaluate component specification versus performance to ensure optimal match of component requirements with production equipment capability with specific emphasis on yield analysis and bin split capability. Proficiency with a variety of automatic semiconductor test equipment, relevant software languages and the various subsystems contained within is highly desired.
• In particular, an understanding of the integration of ATE subsystems into FPGA and VLSI SOC designs.
  
  Essential Duties & Responsibilities
  
  Architect, design, develop and test FPGA solutions for the test and measurement industry.
  
  Develop high speed communication interfaces between FPGA, microcontrollers, and PC.
  
  PCIe Experience Required.
  
  Plan, conduct, and report on the performance testing for new electronic designs
  
  Conduct troubleshooting and determine root cause for circuit design, board design, and fabrication.
  
  Verilog coding experience is desirable.
  
  High Volume manufacturing process experience.
  
  Comprehension of ATE concepts a must.
  
  Familiar with 93K test equipment.
  
  Experience with the FPGA firmware development process is a must; including VHDL code development, simulation, synthesis, timing closure, and FPGA verification.
  
  Experience interfacing high speed A/D, D/A and communication interfaces(I2C, Ethernet, SPI, UARTs)
  
  Familiarity with current advanced FPGA development tools for signal processing applications (e.g. Xilinx Accel DSP, Simulink, or Altera DSP Builder).
  
  Generate test software & hardware design on ASLx, LTX-CX, and LTX-D10
  
  Requirements
  
  • BSEE /MSEE in Electrical Engineering
  • Minimum of one year of demonstrate experience with FPGA, Memory products and design validation, product qualification and manufacturing test.
  • Experience in RF and Mixed Signal Testing, highly desired.
  • Experience within the military/aerospace industry, preferred.
  • Possess a strong programming aptitude, solid understanding of many digital, linear, mixed-signal, memory, and discrete device parameters, and test methodologies used in their measurement
  • Experience Xilinx FGPA family
  • Experience with FPGA implementations of signal processing algorithms.
  • Experience with Multi-Gigabit Transceiver design.
  • Experience in C,C++ Programming related to Advantest 93k tester.
  • Strong in electronic theory.
  • Familiarity with capacitor current theory, op-amp theory, with transistor or FET theory.
  • Experience in generating test vectors, analog, VOL and VOH.
  • Experience in developing test vectors from scratch for the 93k.
  • Experience in developing test programs from scratch for RF, Analog and Digital circuits.
  • Aptitude and Character
  • Thrives on solving complex problems
  • Versatile and tenacious; not intimidated in being repeatedly faced with new challenges and devising solutions
  • Independent thinker, capable of going back to core EE principles to address a problem
  • A good listener---motivated to learn from highly-qualified CTO IMPORTANT INFORMATION This position is in an ITAR-registered facility, US Person (US Citizen or US Permanent resident) status is a must.
    
    Benefits
    
    Pay commensurate with experience

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