Hardware Technician

Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Start date: Immediate

Job description

As a hardware technician you will be mainly responsible for creating test setups and for measuring silicon fingerprint data (SRAM PUF) from all kinds of chips (varying from FPGAs to microcontrollers and specific memory test chips). You will work closely with R&D engineers to understand the test requirements and goals. You will create scripts that communicate with the test boards and measurement equipment to execute test scenarios and read out test data. You will occasionally work with an external PCB design company to create suitable test/measurement boards.  In some cases the test platform may also be used as demonstrator platform, for which you then will design-in the additional requirements, and develop the demonstrator in collaboration with the software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Implementation of test setups for measuring SRAM PUF data from various chips
• Organize implementation of test boards (PCBs)
• Program on-board components (e.g. PLDs/FPGAs)
• Create test scripts for communicating to the test setup and its peripherals (e.g. power source, function generator) and reading out the measurement data
• Support R&D engineers in setting up reliability experiments

Required experience and skills

• Bachelor degree
• 2+ years industrial experience
• Knowledge of PCB design
• Experience with oscilloscope, logic analyzer
• PLD/FPGA programming
• Good debug capabilities
• Scripting in Python
• Effective communication skills

Other appreciated qualities

• Affinity with security
• C/C++ programming
• Creating demonstrator platforms