Semiconductor Product Validation

Job Title: IT|Semiconductor Product Validation - Lead II - Semiconductor Product Validation

Location: USA-Mountain View -Google

We are looking for Physical Design Engineer

• Full chip floor plan, Bump planning, Pad planning, area optimizations, block partitioning and pin placements
  
• Own chip level place and route (PnR), final Chip layout database construction and verification (PDV)
  
• Develop and validate Power Grid, including routability analysis
  
• Drive custom layout integration, full-chip level EM/IR, electrical verification/analysis
  
• Work with the implementation/CAD teams during the entire chip design cycle to drive signoff closure for Tapeout
  
• You will integrate industry standard and custom hardware IP into SoCs
  
• Work with SOC team to meet IP technical and delivery requirements
  
• Participate in establishing CAD and physical design methodologies
  
• Participate in flow development for chip integration and analysis 

Expectations from this role:

• Manage customers to ensure no escalations
  
• Coordinates with the team effectively
  
• Conducts technical interview for the project requirements
  
• Contribute to test case writing for the product
  
• Validate the accuracy of the test cases written for the product
  
• Conducts validation and root cause analysis
  
• Isolate/ packetize the failures to correct component
  
• Attend customer meeting and communicate effectively on the requirements and results.
  
• Locate the product failures and report it in test repository and bug tracker
  
• Learn technology, business domain, system domain individually and as recommended by the project/account
  
• Complete the certifications for the role (e.g. ISTQB, UST GAMMA certifications)
  
• Evaluate the effectiveness of test cases planned
  
• Perform escape analysis for the product
  
• Perform KPI enablementTypical performance measures:
  
• Ensure the product/ validation within defined SLA
  
• Understand the project requirements and hire the right candidate
  
• Good analytical skills and the ability to perform defect triaging
  
• Adherence to schedule and timelines
  
• SLA turnaround of production bugs
  
• Define productivity standards for project
  
• Completion of all mandatory training requirementsPerformance Areas:
  Manage Project:
  Manage task deliverables with quality and targeting completion timeframe.
  Able to support test manager in timely deliverables and test planning

Estimate:

• Estimate time, effort, and resource dependence for one's own work and for others' work.

Document:

• Create component level / product behaviour documents
  Create test reporting templates, BKMs and knowledge sharing documents for team

Status Reporting:

• Report status of tasks assigned
  
• Compliance to validation standards and process

Mentoring:

• Mentor junior leads and POCs in the program
  
• Host classroom training sessions for the junior validation engineers

Skill Examples:

•  Good presentation skills and diplomacy
  
• Should possess good bug advocacy skills
  
• Should have automation scripting skills
  
• Able to perform severity and priority identification of sightings raised
  
• Ability to estimate effort, time required for own work and for the junior engineers
  
• Ability to perform and evaluate test in the customer or target environment
  
• Work in a team environment
  
• Good written and verbal communication abilitiesKnowledge Examples:
  
• Able to understand the product lifecycle and deadline requirements
  
• Should possess excellent domain knowledge
  
• Good CPU/ GPU architecture knowledge
  
• Possess very good knowledge of the product