Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
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The Role:
As Senior Silicon ATE Hardware Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design, and scale innovative semiconductor product manufacturing solutions for Kuiper’s custom RF SoC silicon. You will work closely with internal inter-disciplinary teams and third-party suppliers to drive key aspects of reliability, quality and test system definition, design, and deployment. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
You’ll be responsible for designing and simulating mm-wave hardware for high-volume production test of Project Kuiper custom silicon. You’ll be part of the team that creates a chip and system test infrastructure and methodology applicable to transmit and receive communication systems.
Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
- Create schematics for final-test load boards and wafer sort probe cards.
- Interpret test plans for mm-wave SoCs, and design hardware solutions for mm-wave RF pins, high-speed SERDES up to 112G, and high-speed digital logic.
- Decide on tester instrument configuration to optimize for test coverage and cost across multiple products.
- Simulate load board layout, components, sockets, and packages to validate RF signal integrity.
- Design PCB features such as stack-ups, t-lines, via transitions, socket transitions, etc. for optimized return loss.
- Perform power integrity and signal integrity simulations for high-speed SERDES and digital SoCs.
- Work with lab bench mm-wave test systems to measure fabricated hardware performance and correlate with simulation results.
- Interact with suppliers and OSATs to complete hardware design, component selection, and fabrication.
