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.
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Responsibilities: Bring up, debug and characterize ASICs on evaluation platforms.
Set up test plans and infrastructure for ASIC IC bring up and characterization and work towards PCBA design and development for verification and characterisation of ASIC performance.
Selection of key test instruments and tools required to complete ASIC bring up, verification and characterization.
Work with test software developer to define and help test software for ASIC debug and characterization.
Analyse test results, diagnose issues, revise test setups and procedures to improve measurements and isolate functional and performance issues.
Qualifications: BSc/MSc or higher in Electrical Engineering with analogue and digital circuit design being the primary focus of the course to be able to communicate and liaise with ASIC design engineers.
Experience in the relevant field of evaluation and test engineering is a bonus.
Must be familiar with standard communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, MDIO and ethernet.
Understanding of RF design and testing using various optical and electronic test equipment including oscilloscopes, VNAs and power supplies is desirable.
Working level proficiency in Python for code development to automate product testing and evaluation is expected.
Should be able to ramp up fast enough to be able to help program microcontrollers and facilitate board/ASIC communications for tests and debug.
Flexible, quick learner, ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.