System Integration and Validation Engineer
Hands-on engineer responsible for silicon, board, optical-module, and complete-system validation. The role combines laboratory testing, Python/MATLAB automation, root-cause analysis, and collaboration with hardware, firmware, software, customers, and external partners. The position is fully on-site,
Responsibilities
- Bring up silicon and validate boards for new ASIC revisions
- Validate evaluation boards, reference designs, and optical modules
- Test and integrate optical modules with customer platforms
- Develop and execute validation plans, test procedures, and regression tests
- Debug hardware, firmware, and system-level issues
- Validate power, clock, reset, SerDes, and optical-link interfaces
- Develop Python and MATLAB automation for validation, characterization, and regression testing
- Operate and automate laboratory measurement equipment
- Analyze BER, eye quality, signal integrity, power consumption, and thermal behavior
- Characterize analog blocks, DACs, ADCs, PLLs, power supplies, and monitoring circuitry
- Review schematics and identify board-level issues
- Prepare validation reports and document debugging findings
- Support customer evaluations, reproduce reported issues, and deliver product demonstrations
- Collaborate with customers, vendors, and external partners during integration activities
Requirements
- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- At least 6 years of experience in hardware, system validation, or system integration
- Strong laboratory skills and experience with electronic measurement equipment
- Experience debugging complex electronic systems
- Intermediate Python proficiency for automation and data analysis
- Good understanding of digital interfaces and embedded systems
- Experience with digital signal processing and communication systems
- Familiarity with power sequencing, voltage regulators, clocks, and reset architectures
- Ability to read schematics and perform board-level debugging
- Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills
- Fluent English
- Availability to work fully on-site five days per week
Nice to have
- Experience with PCIe, Ethernet, SerDes, or other high-speed interfaces
- Experience with coherent optical DSPs
- Familiarity with CMIS, OIF, or OpenROADM specifications
- Understanding of signal integrity and power integrity
- Experience validating mixed-signal ASICs
- Experience with analog calibration techniques
- Experience working in multidisciplinary engineering teams