SoC Validation Engineer

Apple • Austin, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

You will be joining a team of engineers who is responsible for validating Apple SoCs with system workloads. In this role, you will be working closely with functional test writers to understand high level architectures of each IP blocks within Apple SoCs and define applicable validation plans. You will then execute such system tests, through scripts/automation framework, on large volume of prototype SoCs across Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) corners. You will be looking for any potential issues, as well as characterizing the functional voltage (lvcc) of SoCs under such workloads. When issue occurs, you will be the first line of debugger to triage issues and isolate/bucketize failures. You will then work with domain experts to define DoEs, come up with rootcause theories, and test possible workarounds. In addition, you will characterize functional voltages (lvcc) of SoCs under system workloads, analyze data across voltage domains, provide feedbacks to PE (product engineers) to define product operation voltages as well as recommend contents to testing/screening environment. Also, you will interface with downstream testing teams (SoC test teams, system test teams, etc) to facilitate resolving issues happening in their environment.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering
• Experience with SoC bring up
• Experience with debugging
• Understanding Computer architectures (cache, memory hierarchy, data pipelines) and logic design
• Experience with Python, Perl or TCL

Responsibilities

• Define applicable validation plans.
• Execute system tests through scripts/automation framework on large volume of prototype SoCs across Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) corners.
• Look for potential issues and characterize the functional voltage (lvcc) of SoCs under system workloads.
• Triage issues, isolate/bucketize failures, and work with domain experts to define DoEs, come up with rootcause theories, and test possible workarounds.
• Analyze data across voltage domains and provide feedback to PE to define product operation voltages.
• Recommend contents to testing/screening environment.
• Interface with downstream testing teams to facilitate resolving issues.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level