Hardware / Validation Engineer

Conexant’s innovative semiconductor solutions are driving broadband communications and digital home networks worldwide. The company has leveraged its expertise and leadership position in modem technologies to enable more Internet connections than all of its competitors combined, and continues to develop highly integrated silicon solutions for broadband data and media processing networks. The company’s semiconductor solutions are found in devices that connect personal access products such as PCs, set-top boxes, and game consoles to voice, video and data processing services over broadband and dial-up connections. They are also used by service providers to deliver broadband data, voice and video content to homes and business around the world. Conexant is a fabless semiconductor company that recorded more than $900 million in revenues in fiscal year 2004. The company has approximately 2,400 employees worldwide, and is headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif. The company also has major operations in San Diego, Calif., Palm Bay, Fla., Red Bank, N.J., and in India. To learn more, please visit us at www.conexant.com

Position Description:

Will be responsible for board level hardware design and development of evaluation platforms and reference designs for digital set top box products. Must be able to carry a project through from conception, design, fabrication, debug, and working prototypes. The position also involves post silicon validation of new Set-top Box IC designs and associated set top box hardware.

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Qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years experience with the design of PCBs at the component level. Schematic design, supervision of PCB layout activity, board debug experience, and use of logic analyzers and oscilloscopes are essential skills. Prior experience with high speed PCB design is important. Signal integrity expertise is desirable. Experience with satellite and/or cable set-top box architecture, MPEG, embedded CPUs, DDR1 and DDR2 memory interfaces, video, audio, graphics and various interfaces such as HDMI, Serial-ATA, USB 2.0, Ethernet, Smart Cards, Modems, Serial Ports, I2C, SPI is desirable. The individual will work within a large design team so good communication and documentation skills are required. Some international and domestic travel may be required (