Senior Characterization Engineer

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Job Description:

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We are looking for a Senior Engineer to help us:

• Develop, maintain and improve systems to store and retrieve characterization data
• Develop a characterization setup with a high level of automation
• Collaborate with the IC design team to develop and perform measurements of all IC parameters
• Test development and implementation for testing and characterization of NAND memory on ATE test systems.
• Perform characterization of all memory technology and designs for logic/ functionality, performance, power consumption, timing and some aspects of reliability.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Electrical engineering fundamentals knowledge, including deep sub-micron CMOS device operation and characteristics, understanding of advancing modeling techniques
• Hands on experience with simulation using tools such as HSPICE, Finesim/PrimeSim or Spectre
• Understand any digital/mixed signal block such as SRAM, I/O using specification
  - Extract netlist through StarRCXT
  - Define timing arcs like setup, hold, propagation delay
• Ability to write SPICE test bench (compatible to simulators like HSpice, FineSim, Spectre etc) for any digital block from the scratch
• Run simulations using SPICE simulator
• Expertise in Perl, Shell, TCL scripting

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