Senior Manager – Characterization

Location:- Hyderabad

Experience:- 14+Years

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the characterization team and enable team growth through internal development and strategic hiring
• Collaborate with offshore teams to expedite bring-up of first silicon, and support validation for fast rollout
• Work with stakeholders to define high speed characterization methodologies and infrastructure for the next generation FPGA and SOC product line
• Define characterization, drive execution, track schedules and report back to core teams throughout the validation phase
• Characterization of a wide range of IP including Digital High-speed peripherals, PLLs, and FPGAs
• Correlation of pre-silicon results with silicon measurements
• Drive continuous innovation to improve characterization coverage and accelerate time to market
• Support customer’s requests to accelerate technology adoption revenue ramp

 

Requirements/Qualifications:

 

Required Skills and Experience:

• BSEE or MSEE
• 15+ years of relevant industry experience
• 5+ years of managing small to medium size teams
• 8+ years of experience in product characterization or silicon validation with emphasis on digital and mixed-signal circuits
• 5+ years of experience in characterization and/or validation of serial protocols (PCIe/10GBaseKR/XAUI/SATA/etc. ) and/or memory interfaces (DDR5/4/etc., LPDDR5/4/etc.)
• Expertise in characterization of SoC, processors, PLL, Oscillators, etc.
• Firmware Development on multi-core microcontrollers or processors (ARM/RISC-V or similar)
• Experience working in a laboratory environment, using lab equipment such as BERTs, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, function generators, etc.
• Experience in evaluation of various laboratory equipment such as BERTs, Oscilloscopes, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including CMOS device operation and characteristics
• Experience in board design fundamentals, signal and power integrity
• Experience with Verilog or VHDL
• Exposure to automated characterization flows to maximize use of equipment
• Critical thinking, creative, problem-solving, forward planning, and strategic thinking
• Must have strong self-learning ability, leadership, decision making, enjoy working in teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Result driven, Quality and goal oriented
• Analytical and organized

 

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of JTAG protocol highly desirable
• Working knowledge of SOC and/or FPGA Architectures
• Knowledge of FPGA design synthesis and routing associated with Microchip (Libero), AMD/Xilinx (Vivado, ISE), or Intel/Altera (Quartus) tools
• Working knowledge of at least 1 of the following languages: Java/ C/C++, Visual Basic and/or Perl
• Analog and mixed signal circuit design. Working experience with analog and/or digital systems is an advantage