Responsibilities: 

• Support internal or external teams on system-level debugging.
• Analyze Bring up, debug, and characterize silicon-level internal IPs such as High-Speed SerDes, for various semiconductor products.
• Evaluate and debug new features in PHY, develop driver firmware, collect performance data, and resolve application and production issues, including Ethernet and PCIe products.
• Provide direct technical support to top-tier customers and work with them to review designs, discuss questions, and help tune performance to meet system requirements.
• Develop and execute bench-level validation test plans and develop scripts in Python, VBA, and MATLAB to automate testing.
• Generate an appropriate test report and write application notes.
• Provide technical support to customers for resolving all technical issues and for furnishing collateral documentation related to technical matters.
• Act as a primary technical interface between the company and customers.
• Qualify design activity at the customer engineering level and participate in the definition of new products and the identification of niche areas that present new opportunities.
• Location: Pavia, Italy.
• Work Model: Full-time, on-site.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering/Science or related technical field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Master’s degree on Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering is preferable.
• Strong fundamentals of communication, transmission lines, EM, microwave theories.
• Test Script generation in Python, VBA, MATLAB or other language.
• Debugging using equipment like Oscilloscope (Keysight, Tektronix, Teledynelecroy), TDR (Time Domain Reflectometer, Tektronix), VNA (Vector Network Analyzer, Agilent), Logic Analyzer (Tektronix, Agilent).
• Bench analysis using equipment like BERT (Bit Error Rate Tester, Keysight, Anritsu) or AWG (Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Tektronix) in a plus.
• Performing 5G, 10G, 25G NRZ and 53G PAM-4 Transmitter Compliance test measurements using IEEE Compliant HCB (Host Compliance Board) test fixture is a plus.
• Performing electrical compliance testing for PCIE Gen4/5 using PCI-SIG Compliance boards is a plus.
• Experience and knowledge on high-speed SerDes Printed Circuit Board design and system application.
• Creating and performing validation test cases and generating reports including the gathered data and target results.
• Attitude to interact with remote teams.
• Willing to travel
• Fluent in English both spoken and written.