We are looking for
Senior Validation Engineer for our client in
Austin, TX Job Title: Senior Validation Engineer Job Location: Austin, TX Job Type: Contract Job Description: Responsibilities:- Manage and maintain testing systems, which includes setting up new systems, diagnosing hardware issues, load operating system, flash FW, and BIOS images both in circuit and throughout band fixtures.
- Execute feature enablement and validation test plans for power management features post silicon phase across all Server products and debug HW/FW bugs.
- Execute power management feature optimization plans.
- Execute benchmark workloads to confirm product performance.
- Prioritize and efficiently manage several concurrent projects and testing tasks.
Preferred Skills and Attributes:
- Knowledge of computer hardware architecture (CPU/APU, x86, pcie, memory, bus logic) and software architecture (driver, bios, firmware usage.
- Knowledge of power management features.
- Understanding of modern x86 microprocessor architecture and Server platform architecture is highly desired.
- Test plan and test development experience.
- Participated in silicon bring up and debug, support to internal engineering teams.
- Familiarity with programming / scripting language (C/C , Python, Perl,).
- Working knowledge of Server OSes (Linux, Windows Server).
- Experienced use of tools such as Jtag debuggers, logic analyzers, SATA, USB, and PCIe bus analyzers.
- Good troubleshooting skills to isolate component issues from software issues and use errors.
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