Job Description

The Role
This position is for a System / PCIe Validation Engineer within the Silicon Validation Engineering team for Ampere’s best in class 64-bit ARMv8 Server Processor family. He / She has to run PCIe characterization and validation test cases of Ampere's state-of-the-art ARM server CPU for data-centers. You'll have the ability to learn quickly to ramp up on Ampere server validation platforms, and to work independently, collect and analyze data. The engineer would also use several PCIe validation equipment benchmarks that mimic server and data-center workloads, and analyze them on Ampere's processor.

What the Team Wants You to Know
Validation work at Ampere is interesting, challenging, and will expand your professional breadth. We like to bring out the best in people, teach each other, and produce products that have value in the market

What You’ll Do

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  Implement PCIe and system validation test case under UEFI and OS environment
• Work closely with engineering team during the product development cycle and involve in early validation strategies and software development.
• Analyze and resolve customers' issues.
• Set up PCIE validation test environment, system boards, PCIE peripherals, test equipment
• Develop, execute, and debug PCIE validation test codes and scripts
• Execute PCIE post-silicon validation plans under the technical lead's guide
• Contribute to creating the test report and to participate in the analysis

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience in system test / development / validation / software engineering
• Experience contributing to UEFI / Linux, PCIE driver programming
• Experience in developing, executing, and debugging PCIE test SW and scripts for SoC post-silicon validation

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering / Electronics / Computer science, with 2+ year experience in semiconductor IC development projects

Our Company Ampere is designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world’s first cloud native processor. Built for the cloud with a modern 64-bit Arm server-based architecture, Ampere gives customers the freedom to accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications. With industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability, Ampere processors are tailored for the continued growth of cloud and edge computing. Our Story Like the scientist behind its name, Ampere employees are innovators. We understand the needs of cloud computing and different software requirements. We are inventing what comes next and looking at everything from the structure of memory and how efficient the system is, to considerations on speed, cost of electricity and ability to cool. Power, size, weight and cost are driving the technology requirements and the innovation to come. Our world class team of engineers, with depth and expertise in the cloud and semiconductor industries, is not only focused on the development of new semiconductor designs but also building out the first software ecosystem for Arm®-based server processors. Through the Ampere approach to the cloud and edge, we give our customers the freedom to challenge the status quo and accelerate next-generation data centers for the most memory-intensive applications. Given the challenge we have outlined, we are building a culture of entrepreneurs that ensure customers come first, proactively approaching industry challenges in the areas of security, power and performance, delivering results that matter most.