Nexthop AI

Nexthop AI

Electrical Design Validation (EDVT) Engineer

Santa Clara, California

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 45 days ago
PythonElectrical EngineeringLoad TestingCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving

About the role

  • A problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivering results while managing technical risks and tradeoffs.
  • At Nexthop, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to the evolution of AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Develop detailed test plans to characterize and validate systems, subassemblies or components as per industry or internal specifications by working closely with HW design (electrical, thermal, power, optics etc.)
  • Support HW bring up, and contract manufacturing NPIE with any electrical qualifications, debugging and test script support
  • Analyze test results, find product design issues, log bugs using tracking software, report realtime status with adequate details, recommend corrective action, drive resolution and verify fixes
  • Nexthop Systems Inc. is seeking an electrical design validation engineer to validate next-generation high-capacity networking systems for emerging AI infrastructures.
  • In this role, you'll combine technical expertise with innovative problem-solving to plan & execute all the qualifications of cutting-edge system designs that meet the demands of advanced data centers and telecom environments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or higher degree in Electrical Engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience in Electrical design validation for telecom or data center product development.
  • Ability to adapt and thrive in a dynamic and innovative environment.

Skills

  • Solid understanding of networking product design & operation
  • Strong knowledge of hardware environmental stress testing through voltage and temperature margin using automated test scripts using Python
  • Ability to automate test setup to control devices under test, environmental test chambers, test equipment (traffic generator, scope etc.)
  • Familiarity with signal & power integrity, reliability and quality
  • Hands-on experience with HW bring up e.g. I2C, PCIe, SMBUS, SERDES, & SOC
  • Working knowledge of various optics types OSFP, QSFP etc
  • Hands-On Expertise:
  • Conducting Electrical & Environmental stress tests using automated script and environmental chambers
  • Writing test script to control test equipments
  • Configuring networking products using standalone diagnostic and OS
  • Debugging issues found during testing using high speed scope, & logic analyzer
  • Testing various optical modules & liquid cool products is a plus

This listing is sourced directly from Nexthop AI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.