Senior Electrical Validation Engineer - SoC and IO Interfaces

Senior SoC Electrical Validation and Tuning Engineer

Job Details:

Job Description: 

The Role and Impact
Step into an exciting opportunity as an Electrical Validation Engineer, where you will be at the forefront of shaping Intel's cutting-edge technology. In this role, you will drive validation strategies for IO interfaces, ensuring optimized analog performance while meeting production goals. Your expertise will influence the development of industry-standard datacom applications, custom Intel interfaces, positioning Intel's products as leaders in innovation and reliability. This role offers the chance to solve complex technical challenges and make a transformative impact on Intel's product quality, yield, and global success.

Key Responsibilities
- Define electrical validation strategies for IO interfaces to optimize analog performance and achieve production targets.
- Validate circuit analog performance, signal integrity compliance, and system-level margins to ensure product stability and industry-standard specifications.
- Conduct multidisciplinary research in design, development, testing, validation, and utilization of IO and mixed-signal architectures.
- Develop validation procedures, infrastructure, and systems margin validation designs.
- Analyze customer returns to drive yield improvement and test escape closures.
- Perform root cause analysis and debug electrical issues to resolve functional and triage failures.
- Test interactions between electrical design features using validation infrastructure.
- Collaborate with architecture, design, and pre-silicon validation teams to ensure DFT and DFM capabilities for IO architecture implementations.
- Prepare validation specifications, evaluate IP, and generate detailed test reports.
- Ensure products conform to quality standards and technical specifications.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's or BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related specialized field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree, 8 years with a Master's, or 6 years with a PhD.
- Proficiency in analog and mixed-signal testing, hardware validation and debug, and validation strategy development.
- Strong expertise in electrical validation and debug processes, signal delivery design and evaluation, and debugging techniques.
- Solid understanding of electrical fundamentals, equalization techniques, and validation protocols.
- Experience with Python programming for validation-related tasks.
- Knowledge of post-silicon validation and debug flows, signal and power integrity, and test content development.

Preferred Qualifications
- Proven ability to solve complex problems, execute disciplined processes, and conduct thorough root cause analysis.
- Familiarity with CPU architecture fundamentals and I/O validation and debug techniques.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated leadership experience in validation planning, protocol design, and delivering high-impact solutions.

Join Intel and be part of a team where your skills, innovation, and impact will drive the future of technology. Apply today and contribute to shaping tomorrow's breakthroughs.

          

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (India)

Primary Location: 

India, Bangalore

Additional Locations:

Business group:

At the Data Center Group (DCG), we're committed to delivering exceptional products and delighting our customers. We offer both broad-market Xeon-based solutions and custom x86-based products, ensuring tailored innovation for diverse needs across general-purpose compute, web services, HPC, and AI-accelerated systems. Our charter encompasses defining business strategy and roadmaps, product management, developing ecosystems and business opportunities, delivering strong financial performance, and reinvigorating x86 leadership. Join us as we transform the data center segment through workload driven leadership products and close collaboration with our partners.

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

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Work Model for this Role

This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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