What are the responsibilities and job description for the ASIC Validation Engineer position at Avicena Tech?
Avicena is a privately held company developing microLED based ultra-low power high bandwidth interconnects for chip-to-chip communications. This technology will revolutionize High-Performance (HPC) and Cloud computing, as well as other industries where low power interconnects are critical like camera sensors, autonomous vehicles, and aerospace. Avicena is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a development center in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company was founded in 2019 by leading technologists from the optical networking industry with a track record of delivering breakthrough products. (www.avicena.tech)
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Bring up, debug and characterize ASIC ICs on evaluation platforms.
- Set up test plans and infrastructure for ASIC IC bring up and characterization and provide input of eval PCBA designs towards completion ASIC performance verification/characterization.
- Selection of key test and Silicon communication instruments/tools required to complete ASIC bring up/verification and characterization.
- Work with test software developer to define and help test software for ASIC debug/characterization.
- Analyze test results, diagnose issues, revise test setups and procedures to improve measurements and isolate functional and performance issues.
- BS or higher in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field with 2 years of work experience.
- Must be proficient with standard communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, MDIO and ethernet.
- Knowledge of analog communication circuits.
- Understanding of RF design and testing using various optical and electronic test equipment including oscilloscopes, digital communications analyzers, vector network analyzers (VNAs), optical power meters, power supplies is highly desirable.
- Ability to do lab automation scripting with Python is a must.
- Ability to work with and program microcontrollers and/or FPGAs is a plus.
- Flexible, quick learner, ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Familiarity with the physics of semiconductor devices (emitters and photodetectors) is desirable.
