Senior Principal Engineer - Validation
NXP Semiconductors · Posted Nov 3
High-performance mixed-signal and standard semiconductor products for automotive, industrial, and mobile applications
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About the role
NXP's automotive MCU organisation develops silicon for automotive products and requires a HW Validation Lead to drive both pre-silicon and post-silicon validation. The role owns functional validation of SOCs and mixed-signal/digital ICs, covering performance, stress and stability, using Python-based automation and lab hardware such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and traffic generators. The engineer leads the validation team, builds test plans and infrastructure, and collaborates with design, DV, analog, firmware and operations teams on debug and ATE screening.
What you will do
- Providing Leadership to SOC validation and driving the validation team for successful product validation and debug of issues found by validation or reported from other teams / customer
- Validation planning – Drive Develop and implement detailed validation test-plan and develop validation methodologies/infrastructure to achieve the coverage
- Test development – Develop test-cases, test environment and automation scripts using Python. Use various HW and SW tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, traffic generators and analyzers.
- Collaboration – Represent validation function in global forums and core team. Work closely with design, DV, Analog and Firmware teams to debug, root-cause and resolve any issues that may arise during validation. In addition, work with Operations to do bench screening, high volume ATE functional screening.
- Documentation and reporting – Document test-plans, test results, validation coverage reports. Communicate the same to stakeholders through regular reports
- Automation – Develop various scripts, web-based tools to automate validation tests as well as collecting reports and diagnostics data
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- B.Tech./M.Tech. Electronics/Computer Engineering
- 10+ years of experience in silicon validation and performed leadership roles in SOCs, mixed signal/digital ICs.
- Hands on experience with debug of interfaces like communication peripherals, memory interfaces and system level validation testing.
- Expertise with pre-silicon platform, C, script-based test automation (Python) and strong scripting skills in general.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors enables secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better, and safer. As a global semiconductor leader, the company drives innovation in automotive processing, secure connected edge systems, industrial IoT, and mobile communications infrastructure.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 32169 employees
- Founded
- 2006
- Location
- Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
Leadership
Rafael Sotomayor
President and Chief Executive Officer
Bill Betz
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Lars Reger
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Chris Jensen
Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer
Jennifer Wuamett
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Sustainability Officer
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