Embedded Validation Engineer (PC-TBD)
Austin, Texas
Global Operations – Global Operations /
Full Time /
Hybrid
For over four decades, Cirrus Logic has been propelled by the top engineers in mixed-signal processing. Our rockstar team thrives on solving complex challenges with innovative end-user solutions for the world's top consumer brands. Cirrus Logic is also known for its award-winning culture, which was built on a foundation of inclusion and fairness, meaningful community engagement, and delivering enjoyable employee experiences at every turn. But we couldn’t do it without our extraordinary workforce – and that’s where you come in. Join our team and help us continue to make Cirrus Logic an exceptional place to grow your career!
As an Embedded Validation Engineer, you will be a valued member of the pre-silicon emulation/post-silicon validation team focused on bringing leading edge Mixed Signal processing chips to market. Our high performance chips enable an incredible mixed-signal experience with highly integrated, platform level functionality while delivering lowest power consumption and highest efficiency.
Responsibilities:
- Think beyond the datasheet and around design corners to find elusive bugs. Able to think of test cases and customer usage model that may violate the assumptions of designers and systems engineers
- Design and develop bare-metal firmware to support pre-silicon, post-silicon, test, infrastructure, boot, ROM, and characterization.
- Actively participate in chip design and architecture reviews and identify areas of weakness in designs and recommend Design-for-Validation (DFV) hooks to improve validation coverage and efficiency
- Architect and drive implementation of continuous improvements to validation infrastructure to enable improved validation efficiency and coverage
- Develop automated test framework, regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency
- Develop and execute tests on the lab bench per the validation plan during pre-silicon and post-silicon phases of the product to ensure functionality and performance as per the datasheet
- Debug analog/digital silicon issues, board issues and Validation software/hardware tools issues
- Analyze test results and identify failures/defects using business intelligence tools such as Spotfire
- Expand coverage across multiple devices and FW targets
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 2+ years of experience in related field or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- Experience working as a firmware, embedded systems, or application engineer for embedded SoCs including experience with microprocessors, microcontrollers, DMAs, and communications peripherals.
- Excellent Embedded SW programming skills including Python, C or C++
- Knowledge of ARM, 8051, x86, or DSP processors and embedded system architectures
- Expertise in Validation automation and scripting/programming languages such as C, Python or similar
- Solid hands-on experience in lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, audio analyzers, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers for measurement and debugging issues
- Advanced electrical engineering knowledge in analog, digital, power electronics or audio engineering. This includes mixed signal building blocks such as ADC, DAC, PLLs, amplifiers, signal processing and measurement, IC control/communication protocols
- Self-motivated with excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail are highly valued as you will need to understand silicon, board and software interactions
- Highly dynamic, energetic and driven personality with excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work across functional groups and organization
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Some ARM assembly experience
- Knowledge of ARM application processors and Keil development environment using ETM debuggers
- Experience programming DSPs with fixed-point C or assembly for efficient implementations
- Demonstrated aptitude in system understanding of various industry interface standards such as I2C, SPI, USB, I2S, TDM or high-speed control/data bus as examples
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