Hardware Validation Engineer

Job Role : Hardware Validation Engineer.

Experience : 7 - 15 Years.

Location : Bangalore.

Key Responsibilities :

- Perform electrical validation and board-level debugging of high-speed digital hardware.

- Review schematics, PCB layouts, and high-speed board designs for design quality and validation readiness.

- Lead high-speed board bring-up and troubleshoot hardware issues.

- Validate interfaces including PCIe, DDR, and high-speed serial interfaces.

- Perform Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) issue triaging in collaboration with SI/PI teams.

- Analyze Eye Diagrams, Jitter, TDR, signal quality, and timing characteristics.

- Perform DDR/NAND memory characterization and validation.

- Design, test, and validate switching DC power supplies and power delivery circuits.

- Validate high-speed processor-based designs and associated board-level interfaces.

- Perform noise injection, power-loss, and power-backup circuit measurements.

- Characterize different energy-storage mechanisms and drive-power backup circuits.

- Develop and execute hardware validation plans, test procedures, and debug strategies.

Must-Have Skills :

- 7+ years of experience in Digital Hardware / High-Speed Board Design and Validation.

- Strong experience in Schematic Design, PCB Design, and Design Review.

- Hands-on experience in high-speed board bring-up and board-level debugging.

- Strong experience with PCIe, DDR, and high-speed serial interfaces.

- Experience with electrical validation and signal integrity troubleshooting.

- Hands-on experience with Eye Diagram, Jitter, and TDR measurements.

- Experience with high-speed/high-bandwidth oscilloscopes, power/data analyzers, and memory characterization equipment.

- Strong understanding of DDR/NAND memory testing and characterization.

- Experience in Switching DC Power Supply design and testing.

- Good knowledge of I2C, SPI, and SMBus protocols.

Skills

System Validation, PCB, PCI-e, PCB Design, Schematics, DDR, Signal Integrity