Validation Engineer III, Silicon

3 weeks ago

Bengaluru, India Google Full time
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3 years of experience in high-speed I/O validation with a specific focus on USB PHY electrical characterisation and compliance testing.
  • Experience in scripting for test automation and data analysis in Python.
Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science with an emphasis on computer architecture.
  • Experience in bench level IP bring-up and debugging, functional validation, characterisation, developing bare metal bench tests and manufacturing support.
  • Experience with Schematic/Layout reading and Board level hardware debug.
  • Knowledge of USB Power Delivery electrical requirements and Type-C alternate modes (e.g., DisplayPort over USB-C).
  • Ability to debug complex hardware and signal integrity issues at the electrical level.
About the job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with pre- and post-silicon teams to develop, simulate, and validate tests, as well as to document the pre- and post-silicon validation tests to ensure they are easy to use.
  • Work with internal cross-functional teams, external silicon partners, and intellectual property (IP) vendors to functionally validate and parametrically characterize the silicon, including bare-metal, kernel, drivers, and real-time operating system (RTOS).
  • Design Google's future products by owning bench level design validation and characterisation for high speed serial interfaces (e.g., USB3.2, USB-DP, PCIe etc.).
  • Characterize IP specific Signal Integrity, Power Integrity and Protocol validation test cases to evaluate IP performance at various operating conditions (i.e., voltage, process, temperature).
  • Automate test cases using scripting languages like Python or Perl to improve efficiency and test coverage.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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