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Amazon Sr. Electrical Validation Engineer, Amazon Devices in Bengaluru, India
Description
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile devices like the Kindle family of products. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. Since then, we have worked to produce best-selling e-readers and tablets, as well as new inventions like Echo line of products, Fire TV and Fire phone. What will you help us create?
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Electrical Validation Engineer, you will be part of Validation team that is exploring new hardware designs to improve our devices. In this role, you will create, define and develop electrical validation environment and test suites. You will also be responsible for the development of methodologies, execution of validation plans, debug of failures and follow up to closure.
Key job responsibilities
You will work closely with multi-disciplinary groups including Board Design, System Architects, IP developers, and Software Engineering, to verify and deliver complex, high volume SoCs that enable development of world-class hardware devices. In this role, you will:
• Perform electrical compliance test specifications / compliance test suite for various interfaces and conduct lab measurements
• Work on high-speed serial I/O interfaces like (LP)DDR4/5, USB, CSI/DSI, HDMI, PCIe interfaces etc.
• Perform documentation and communicate data across large number of tests and measurement results
• Drive initiatives to improve process, procedures, and quality of High Speed Characterization at SOC & Product level.
• Work on schematic and PCB physical design tools to interpret the design and locate physical probe points.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or higher in EE, ECE, or CS with atleast 10+ years of Industry experience
High speed serial interface analog building blocks, protocol, specifications and test methods
Proficiency in handling High Bandwidth oscilloscopes, BERT, logic analyzers and understanding of probing techniques
Understanding of Power & signal integrity concepts such as differential impedance, jitter, insertion loss, return loss, termination, etc.
PCB layout best practices
Good understanding of High-Speed Analog/Digital Circuits, VLSI, semiconductor physics
Preferred Qualifications
• MS/ME in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Writing Python/TCL/PERL code to automate test procedures
• Good software architecture principles and development practices
• Scripting experience in any programming language (C++, Python, PERL, MATLAB) to develop automation scripts is a plus.
• Experience in Analog IP Characterization (SerDes, PLL, DDR) is desirable.
• Familiarity with Transmitter and Receiver design blocks. Understanding of equalization techniques (CTLE/DFE).