Memory Electrical Validation Engineer
Intel · Posted Oct 5
Semiconductor manufacturing, microprocessors, data center solutions, and artificial intelligence infrastructure
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About the role
The Silicon and Platform Engineering (SPE) Group at Intel designs, develops, and validates advanced silicon and platform technologies that drive Intel's leadership in the semiconductor industry. This role focuses on optimizing and validating electrical performance for memory IO interfaces, ensuring compliance with industry standards, analyzing operating margins, and debugging electrical issues. The engineer will define validation strategies, work on Memory Reference Code (MRC) analysis, and partner with architecture, design, and presilicon verification teams on DFT and DFM capabilities.
What you will do
- Define electrical validation strategies for memory IO interfaces to ensure optimized electrical performance and alignment with production goals.
- Validate circuit analog performance, signal integrity compliance, and system-level margins against industry standards.
- Analyze, debug, and optimize Memory Reference Code (MRC) requirements to improve margins and overall product quality.
- Collaborate on multidisciplinary research for testing, validation, and optimization of memory IO and mixed-signal architectures.
- Develop procedures and designs for validation processes, systems margin evaluation, and test infrastructure.
- Debug functional and triage failures to identify root causes and resolve electrical issues.
- Test electrical interactions between design features using advanced validation infrastructure.
- Prepare validation specifications, evaluate intellectual property (IP), and generate detailed test reports.
- Partner with architecture, design, and presilicon verification teams to ensure effective Design for Testability (DFT) and Design for Manufacturability (DFM) capabilities for IO architectures.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of hands-on industry experience in electrical validation or debugging
- Proficiency in validating signal integrity and electrical performance of memory IO interfaces.
- Experience with debugging electrical and system-level issues.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze, design, and optimize validation procedures and test infrastructure.
- Familiarity with compliance testing against industry-standard specifications.
Preferred qualifications
- Familiarity with memory validation tools, techniques, and methodologies.
- Strong collaborative skills, particularly in multidisciplinary research and cross-functional teamwork.
- Proven ability to develop and refine validation strategies for complex architectures.
- Passion for delivering innovative solutions and driving continuous improvement.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Intel
Intel Corporation is a global technology leader focused on the design and manufacturing of microprocessors, integrated circuits, and advanced data center infrastructure. The company drives innovation across personal computing, artificial intelligence, and cloud ecosystems while operating a major semiconductor foundry business. Intel delivers foundational silicon and packaging solutions that power modern digital infrastructure worldwide.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1968
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Lip-Bu Tan
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Pushkar Ranade
Chief Technology Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO
Executive Vice President – Chief Technology and Operations Officer, General Manager Intel Foundry
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