UFS IP Validation Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Participate in systems design development across the entire product lifecycle, from pre-silicon and emulation through post-silicon, software integration, and validation.


• Lead technical presentations, demonstrating strong understanding of hardware architecture and system design expertise.


• Collaborate with Design, Software, Tools, and other teams to define testing and debug methodologies to maximize coverage and customer experience for the UFS IP.


• Work with the Program Leadership team to define the end-to-end plan, identify risks, and address concerns during planning.


• Act as a leader and mentor to the operations team and lead by example.


• Isolate and debug issues found in the southbridge and peripherals during pre-silicon, bring-up, validation, and production phases.


• Proactively support a team culture that fosters knowledge sharing, excellence, and collaboration.


• Define and execute validation strategies, feature enablement, and unit test plans.


• Publish and align test plan requirements, deliverpatched, and dependencies.


• Work closely with design, diagnostics, software, firmware, BIOS, driver, and project leadership teams.


• Lead cross‑functional technical discussions to drive root cause identification and resolution.


• Drive and participate in technical innovations to enhance validation capabilities, including tools, scripts, methodologies, and technical improvements.

Requirements

• Knowledge of UFS standards and architecture, with encryption technology preferred.


• In‑depth knowledge of SoC architecture and concepts.


• In‑depth knowledge of southbridge technology.


• Experience with FPGA and hardware emulation platforms for pre‑silicon debugging.


• Strong understanding of BIOS, operating systems such as Windows and Linux, and driver‑level interactions.


• Good understanding of boot flows and sequences.


• In‑depth knowledge of system peripherals such as PCIe, NVMe, USB, I2C, UFS, SATA, SPI, and UART.


• Experience with UFS analyzers and exercisers, lab equipment, computer hardware, and networks.


• Experience leading process improvement initiatives to enhance engineering quality.


• Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.


• Knowledge of standard power‑management features and use cases.

Preferred Experience

• Three to six years of experience in pre‑ and post‑silicon validation and four to eight years of experience in the semiconductor industry.


• Demonstrated ability to quickly grasp new technical concepts.


• Experience with hardware description languages such as Verilog.


• Strong programming and scripting skills using Python, C, C++, or Ruby.


• Experience with IP and system‑level bring‑up, SoC debug techniques, and methodologies.


• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with high attention to detail.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Self‑starter who collaborates effectively and independently drives tasks to completion.


• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple issues simultaneously.

Academic Credentials

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field preferred.