Senior Staff Silicon Validation Engineer

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

What Will You Get to Do?

Do you have a passion for invention and self-challenge? This position gives you an opportunity to learn and participate in one of the most cutting-edge projects that Lattice’s Silicon Engineering team has embarked upon to date.

We are validating building blocks in Silicon on board level to ensure functionality and performance aspect of Design intent. FPGA consists of various IPs as a building block such as SERDES, Memory DDR, DPHY, PLL etc.  As a Silicon Design Validation engineer, you will have an opportunity to learn and train yourself on how to validate one of the building blocks within the FPGA.  This will help acquiring knowledge on design & verification of usage case in FPGA to enable your validation.  And you will be able to acquire knowledge on process/methodology required for validating certain IPs from planning to execution. While you are working on those, you will be exposed to cutting edge equipment and advanced boards as well as Various SW/tools/scripts. 

What you’re going to be exposed to and learn:

The ideal candidate is highly motivated in developing a career in Silicon Design Validation engineering.  You will get significant exposure and training in the following areas:

• Validate and characterize integrated circuit (IC) products from tape-out through release to production.
• Develop validation and characterization plans, bench hardware and software.
• Develop usecase RTL to achieve required test.
• Drive new silicon product bring-up, debug and characterization to determine product performance.
• Serve as the central resource with design, process, manufacturing, test, quality and marketing as the product(s) move to production release.
• Functional validation. Performance measurement. Measured data analysis, data sheet preparation and reviewing the test result
• Schedule and maintain status of new product validation, characterization process and qualification issues pertaining to new product introduction.
• Interact with internal design, manufacturing, and applications on all product issues.
• Support device failure analysis as required to resolve any device-related problems

You Have…

• 5 to 10 years of experience
• Electrical Engineering degree with a strong desire to pursue an engineering career in Silicon Design Validation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to work with cross-functional team
• Having FPGA emulation experience is highly desirable.
• Expertise in High Speed Interface characterization and protocol compliance testing such as PCI Express, MIPI D-PHY, MIPI CSI/DSI-2, and DisplayPort
• Expertise in high speed board level design and signal integrity evaluation/debug.
• Expertise in Verilog/VHDL and design implementation using FPGA development tools.
• Expertise in test automation development using programming languages such as Python, Perl.
• Knowledge of statistical analysis concepts and use of analysis tools such as JMP, R.
• Experience with microcontroller firmware development and debug.
• Proficiency with bench equipment for device characterization such as BERT, VNA, Oscilloscopes, Protocol Exerciser/Analyzers.
• Self-motivated and proactive with critical thinking.
• Good problem solving and de-bugging skills.

Who Are We?

At Lattice, we are good at collaboration and problem solving. We’re also good at having a bit of fun.

We develop technologies that we monetize through differentiated programmable logic semiconductor products, system solutions, design services and licenses. We are the low power programmable leader. We solve customer problems across the network, from the Edge to the Cloud, in growing communications, computing, industrial, automotive and consumer markets. Our technology, long-standing relationships and commitment to world-class support enable our customers to create a smart, secure, and connected world.

Join Team Lattice…and help us continue to drive innovation that creates a smarter, better-connected world. Together, we enable what’s next.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

We encourage you to apply, even if you feel your background is missing a few of the areas above. There is so much depth of knowledge and experience included! Lattice is a great place to add these skills to your background because we believe that great engineers come from diverse backgrounds.