ATE High-Speed Interface Test Engineer

ATE High-Speed Interface Test Engineer

• Location: Coimbatore, Bengaluru , India
• Work Mode: Onsite
• Experience: 3- 10 Years
• Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Overview

We are looking for an ATE High-Speed Interface Test Engineer to develop and support semiconductor test solutions for high-speed digital interfaces across wafer sort and final test. The role involves ATE test program development, silicon validation, characterization, production test optimization, and close collaboration with design, product engineering, signal integrity, and manufacturing teams. Candidates should have hands-on experience with modern semiconductor ATE platforms and high-speed interface technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop ATE test programs from scratch for Wafer Sort (WS) and Final Test (FT).
• Create engineering validation, characterization, and production test solutions for high-speed interfaces.
• Develop, debug, and optimize engineering and production test programs.
• Design and review high-speed load boards, interface boards, interposers, sockets, and evaluation hardware.
• Develop high-speed channel architectures with controlled impedance and signal integrity considerations.
• Support connector, socket, cable, and interconnect selection for high-speed applications.
• Perform protocol validation, compliance testing, link training verification, jitter analysis, and timing measurements.
• Execute TX/RX, BER, loopback, margin, stress, and compliance testing methodologies.
• Perform device characterization across Process, Voltage, and Temperature (PVT) conditions.
• Analyze Wafer Sort and Final Test data to improve yield, optimize test limits, and reduce test time.
• Develop automation scripts for test execution, data acquisition, statistical analysis, and reporting.
• Collaborate with Design, Product Engineering, Signal Integrity, PCB Design, Applications, Manufacturing, and Customer Engineering teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in:
• Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE)
• Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE)
• Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering (EIE)
• Instrumentation Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Embedded Systems
• VLSI Design
• Microelectronics
• Semiconductor Technology
• Or a related engineering discipline
• 3 10 years of experience in semiconductor ATE test development, validation, characterization, or production testing.
• Experience working with high-speed digital interface validation and production test development.

Technical Skills ATE Platforms

• Advantest V93000
• Teradyne UltraFLEX
• Advantest T2000
• NI Semiconductor Test System (NI STS)
• Other High-Speed Semiconductor ATE Platforms

High-Speed Interface Technologies

• PCI Express (PCIe)
• USB 2.0 / 3.x / 4.0
• Ethernet
• DDR / LPDDR
• MIPI
• HDMI
• DisplayPort
• SATA
• UFS
• eMMC
• SD / SDIO
• CXL
• UCIe
• SerDes
• XAUI
• JESD204B / JESD204C

High-Speed Hardware Development

• Load Board Development
• Interface Board Design
• Interposer Design
• Socket Selection
• Connector Selection
• PCB Layout Review
• Controlled Impedance Routing
• Differential Pair Routing
• PCB Stack-up Review
• Via Optimization
• Back-drilling
• High-Speed Signal Path Optimization

Signal Integrity & High-Speed Design

• Signal Integrity (SI)
• Power Integrity (PI)
• Transmission Line Theory
• Impedance Matching
• Eye Diagram Analysis
• BER Testing
• Jitter Analysis
• Channel Characterization
• Insertion Loss
• Return Loss
• Crosstalk
• Equalization (CTLE, DFE, FFE)
• De-embedding
• S-Parameters

Protocol Validation

• Compliance Testing
• Protocol Analyzer
• Interoperability Testing
• Link Training
• Timing Analysis
• Reference Clock Architecture
• PAM4
• NRZ
• CDR
• SSC

Programming

• Python
• C
• C++
• Java
• VB

ATE Software

• SmarTest
• IG-XL
• TestInsight

Bench Equipment

• High-Bandwidth Oscilloscope
• Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT)
• Vector Network Analyzer (VNA)
• Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR)
• Time Domain Transmission (TDT)
• Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG)
• Protocol Analyzer
• Protocol Exerciser
• Logic Analyzer
• Digital Power Analyzer
• Digital Multimeter (DMM)

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