Intern, Digital Test Development Engineer
Are you a problem solver looking for a hands-on internship position with a market-leading company that will help develop your career and reward you intellectually and professionally?
Analog Devices (ADI) has just over $9 billion in revenue with offices around the world. As a global leader in the design and manufacturing of analog, mixed signal, power management and DSP integrated circuits, ADI is known for helping to solve its customers’ toughest engineering challenges. With a commitment to engineering for good, ADI strives to create a more sustainable future, while also focusing on its employees through mentoring programs, employee networks and continuous learning opportunities.
At ADI, you will learn from the brightest minds who are here to help you grow and succeed. During your internship, you will make an impact through work on meaningful projects alongside a team of experts. Collaborating with colleagues in an environment of respect and responsibility, you will create connections that will become a part of your professional network.
ADI’s culture values aligned goals, work-life balance, continuous and life-long learning opportunities, and shared rewards. The internship program features various lunch-and-learn topics and social events with other interns and full-time employees.
At ADI, our goal is to develop our interns so they are the first to be considered for full-time roles.
Apply now for the opportunity to grow your career and help innovate ahead of what’s possible.
The Wireless Platform Group (WPG) of Analog Devices has been developing Software Defined Radio solutions for cellular telephone base stations for the past two decades. Our market-leading customers have depended on our designs to launch their most advanced products as the industry has progressed from 1G to 5G. Every day your cellphone most likely connects through our radio products. Analog Devices is organized as business units such as WPG, each assigned a market to service, with control of R&D decisions and the responsibility to return a profit to ADI. As our team has grown, maintaining our aggressive entrepreneurial spirit has been critical to our success. WPG is seeking MSEE Summer intern candidates at ADI’s new RTP location.
Digital test engineers work with mixed signal test engineers for developing the test hardware and software that ensures our products meet customer performance expectations for the cellular base station market. The demands of 5G communications require ultimate performance for linearity and signal purity at RF frequencies for both transmit and receive paths. The base station electronics are mounted on towers where weight is the critical design constraint. All cooling is passive, and our components are expected to maintain operation and performance at extreme temperatures. The test engineer uses their knowledge of electronics, physics, and digital communications to subject our products to a list of tests that will ensure operation and performance in the customer’s application. Digital test engineers use specific DFT techniques to increase the end-to-end testability of the IC.
Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
The Digital Test Engineering position will provide ATE test development from product conception to manufacturing release in our Wireless Platform Group. Key responsibilities include:
May perform some or all the following:
- Develop and debug automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) test methodologies like SCAN, At-speed SCAN for digital blocks of a transceiver IC.
- Generate and debug special tests for analyzing the performance of memory blocks of transceiver IC.
- Analyze and conduct tests to characterize and validate new interfaces and measure various timing specifications on digitally complex electronic components.
- Perform thermal and electrical tests of IC package solutions to support various interface types which aid the IC package technology selection.
- Develop and debug functional tests for digital block through Verilog and System Verilog pattern using automated test equipment tester software.
- Develop software in major ATE software platforms to test ICs on custom PCBs for interface to ATE
- Use statistical analysis tools and reports to analyze the yields.
- Participate in project development including support of design-for-testability, product qualification, and ongoing support of products in production
- Interface with design, product evaluation, process, manufacturing, quality, and marketing as the product(s) move to completion and distribution
Minimum qualifications
0-5 years’ experience with Test Development on Digital IC’s
BSEE required MSEE preferred
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or relevant technical discipline such Computer Engineering or Electronics Engineering with ASIC design, ASIC verification, VLSI design, coursework
- Understanding of digital DFT techniques (SCAN, BIST, JTAG, memory BIST)
- Developing and debugging ATPG tests using Synopsys or Cadence tools for digital blocks
- Performing characterization on timing parameters of different digital I/O’s
- Comfortable with Verilog or System Verilog test bench writing and simulating
- High-level software programming in C++, TCL, LabVIEW, Perl, Visual Basic
Preferred qualifications
- ASIC verification education background.
- Working understanding of certain IP blocks (digital filters, ARM, JESD, ethernet)
- Knowledge of signal processing concepts and application
For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.
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Job Req Type: Internship/Cooperative
Required Travel: No