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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As Senior Silicon Validation Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative product solutions. You’ll be responsible for building, maintaining, and operating lab bench setups and probe-stations to enable high-volume production test of mm-wave SoCs for Project Kuiper. Lab bench setups will span wafer level and package level setups as well as digital and RF focused setups. You’ll also be responsible for writing automation software for some of these setups. You’ll work closely with silicon design teams, ATE engineers, and failure analysis engineers to bring-up, test, characterize and debug complex SoCs. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
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
- Develop and execute test plans for functional verification and characterization, focused both RF feature validation as well as test mode validation for ATPG, HTOL, etc.
- Specify, build, maintain, and operate lab bench setups for mm-wave SoC and front-end validation and debug at both the wafer level and package level.
- Implement test plans by developing software tests and flows for system validation and verification.
- Work with lab bench mm-wave test systems to correlate bench and ATE results.
- Work throughout the entire project life-cycle, from early pre-silicon planning and test development, through end-of-life characterization and failure debug.
- Enable lab-bench bring-up of silicon ATE test program across multiple SoCs.
- Collaborate closely with firmware, ATE, and reliability engineers reduce test cost and increase reliability of Kuiper custom silicon.
- Conduct in-system s-parameter, signal integrity, and power integrity measurements and compare with simulation models.
- Construct specialized bench setups to support physical and electrical failure analysis of units returned from ATE, qualification, or application.
