At a glance
- Experience
- 12-20 years experience
- Location
- San Jose
About the role
- The Senior Principal Test Engineer serves as a technical authority for test engineering across complex mixed-signal silicon and high-speed connectivity products.
- This role involves defining test strategies for SCM high-volume manufacturing and validation boards, owning execution from early product engagement through mass production.
Responsibilities
- Define and own comprehensive test strategies, specifications, and plans from product definition through high-volume production.
- Establish coverage, quality, yield, test-time, and cost objectives.
- Partner with design and product engineering teams to identify testability requirements and make design-for-test tradeoffs.
- Architect tester solutions and guide development of Tester HW design.
- Validate Tester Designs and characterize before implementing into Mass Production.
- Apply understanding of physical-layer behavior to investigate failures, interpret lab and production data, and resolve complex performance issues.
- Lead root-cause analysis and yield improvement using protocol analyzers, oscilloscopes, manufacturing data, and structured failure analysis.
- Serve as a senior technical advisor across test, DFT, design, operations, quality, and external manufacturing organizations.
- Establish best-known methods, scalable test processes, and automation practices.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and communicate risks and recommendations to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 12–20 years of experience in Test engineering or Product Engineering from development through high-volume manufacturing.
- Strong experience developing custom test solutions for high-speed, mixed-signal products for high volume manufacturing.
- Working knowledge of high-speed protocols and physical-layer behavior, including PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, NVMe, or USB.
- Experience with Test SW development, production debug, and test-time optimization.
- Proven experience developing and designing custom Test Hardware for PCBA High volume manufacturing.
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience with Electrical HW board design on complex Test HW implementation.
- Strong knowledge of DFT techniques such as SCAN, MBIST, SerDes, and functional test.
- Knowledge of control interfaces such as I2C, I3C, SPI, MDIO, and JTAG.
- Proficiency in C/C++ or Python for ATE programming, data processing, and test automation.
- Familiarity with databases and yield analytics.
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and influence cross-functional decisions.
- Proficient in Mandarin Chinese.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $205,000 USD - $260,000 USD
Skills
- PCIe
- Ethernet
- DDR
- NVMe
- USB
- SCAN
- MBIST
- SerDes
- I2C
- I3C
- SPI
- MDIO
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- JTAG
- C/C++
- Python
