Staff ASIC Validation Engineer (Chaz/Characterization))

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Job Description

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.

• Leverage AI-enabled tools and technologies

• 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

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich lifefor all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities - from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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