SerDes Validation Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•San Jose, CA
•Hybrid
About The Position
As a SerDes Validation Engineer in the SerDes Technology team, you will collaborate with various Product Development Groups, Silicon Design, DFT, Packaging, and interface with key technology partners. This individual serves as a critical technical point of contact to ensure best-practices and new test concepts are architected, developed, and driven throughout the organization. This position focuses on developing characterization and verification test solutions for SerDes. You will be part of a larger team that defines test solutions from concept, development, to production deployment.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in EIC or PIC characterization and validation
- Strong background in solving complex test and manufacturing challenges related to silicon photonics and optical interconnect technologies
- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and contributing to long-term test solution strategies
- MS or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Optics & Photonics Engineering
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience with full stack lab instruments such as high-speed scopes, BERT, VNA, and/or other associated lab equipment.
- Experience in mixed signal analysis, issue debug
- Experience in scripting test automation, demo GUI, customer supporting scripts
- Understanding of Signal Integrity and/or Power Integrity is a plus
- Familiar with advance data post processing technics is a plus
Responsibilities
- Bring up and validate silicon photonic devices and optical engines including modulators, photodetectors, wavelength‑division multiplexed channels, and optical interfaces
- Perform electro‑optical characterization: optical power, extinction ratio, insertion loss, BER, eye diagrams, jitter, and sensitivity
- Validate Tx/Rx optical paths across temperature, voltage, and process corners
- Validate electrical‑to‑optical interfaces and high‑speed electrical links for the PIC
- Correlate lab measurements with simulation and modeling results (optical, electrical, and thermal)
- Develop and maintain validation test plans, lab procedures, and automation frameworks
- Define and execute DFT and design‑for‑validation features for optical engines
- Drive root‑cause analysis using lab data, protocol traces, and optical measurements
Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
