Avicena is a privately held company developing microLED based ultra-low power high bandwidth interconnects for chip-to-chip communications. This technology will revolutionize High-Performance (HPC) and Cloud computing, as well as other industries where low power interconnects are critical like camera sensors, autonomous vehicles, and aerospace. Avicena is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a development center in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company was founded in 2019 by leading technologists from the optical networking industry with a track record of delivering breakthrough products. (www.avicena.tech)
Responsibilities:
1. Bring up, debug, and characterize ASIC ICs on evaluation platforms.
2. Set up test plans and infrastructure for ASIC IC bring up and characterization and provide input of eval PCBA designs towards completion ASIC performance verification/characterization.
3. Selection of key test and Silicon communication instruments/tools required to complete ASIC bring up/verification and characterization.
4. Work with test software developer to define and help test software for ASIC debug/characterization.
5. Analyze test results, diagnose issues, revise test setups and procedures to improve measurements and isolate functional and performance issues.
Qualifications:
1. BS or higher in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field with 2+ years of work experience.
2. Must be proficient with standard communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, MDIO, and ethernet.
3. Knowledge of analog communication circuits.
4. Understanding of RF design and testing using various optical and electronic test equipment including oscilloscopes, digital communications analyzers, vector network analyzers (VNAs), optical power meters, power supplies is highly desirable.
5. Ability to do lab automation scripting with Python is a plus.
6. Ability to work with and program microcontrollers and/or FPGAs is a plus.
7. Flexible, quick learner, ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.
8. Familiarity with the physics of semiconductor devices (emitters and photodetectors) is desirable.
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