Originally posted 7 August 2024 by the employer — open 764 days.
Work on High Speed SERDES Test chips.
About the role
This role involves leading pre-silicon Physical Layer Electrical Validation infrastructure development and post-silicon validation efforts. You will primarily focus on Cadence's High Speed SERDES Test chips.
What you'll do
- Lead pre-silicon Physical Layer Electrical Validation infrastructure development.
- Lead post-silicon validation efforts on High Speed SERDES Test chips.
- Design hardware and software architecture for testing test chips, including test PCBs and controlling FPGA platforms.
- Define test plans for rigorously testing compliance to Physical Layer Electrical specifications.
- Implement defined tests and generate high quality test reports.
What you'll need
- 6-10 years (BTech) or 4-8 years (MTech) of experience in Post-Silicon Physical Layer Electrical Validation.
- Deep Physical Layer electrical validation experience on at least one High speed SERDES protocol like PCIe, USB, DP, ethernet, SRIO, JESD204, DDRIO.
- Strong hands-on experience using lab equipment such as Oscilloscopes, Network Analyzer, Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT).
Nice to have
- Experience managing small teams (at least 2 members).
- Experience leading complete post-silicon validation efforts for at least one full project.
- 1-2 years of experience in FPGA Design, PCB schematic and layout design & Prototyping.
- Pre-Silicon IP/SoC Physical Layer Electrical Validation experience related to board bring-up & Debug.
- Familiarity with Verilog RTL coding, FPGA coding, Labview, python, C/C++, TCL.
- Experience conducting hiring interviews and mentoring new hires.
- Passion for analog and digital electronic circuit design aspects as well as signal processing related aspects.
Skills: Physical Layer Electrical Validation, High Speed SERDES, Test chips, signal integrity, timing closure, chip-to-chip interfaces
This role has been open 169 days — well above the 91-day median for High-Speed IO/SerDes Design roles.
High-Speed IO/SerDes Design · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
217
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Median days open
91 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | Cadence Design Systems | All employers we track in this specialty (217 roles · 44 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in category | 19 | 217 |
| Median days open | 153 d | 91 d (+62 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: Physical Layer Electrical Validation, High Speed SERDES, Test chips, signal integrity, timing closure, chip-to-chip interfaces
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 24 open roles · median 61 d
- Cadence Design Systems (this employer) · 19 open roles · median 153 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 74 d
- Synopsys · 16 open roles · median 53 d
- Broadcom · 11 open roles · median 142 d
- NVIDIA · 10 open roles · median 95 d
How we counted: 217 open High-Speed IO/SerDes Design (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 44 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Sept 2026. Figures refresh nightly.