RF Test Engineer

Beaverton, OR, United StatesRF Test Engineer New Product Development | Beaverton, Oregon | Full-time, Exempt ROLE FOCUS RF and microwave component characterization and automated production test for ASICs and other high-performance microelectronic devices at wafer and packaged-device level.

About Tektronix Component Solutions Tektronix Component Solutions is a U.S.

-based OSAT and microelectronics services provider specializing in high-reliability test, assembly, manufacturing, and engineering services. We partner closely with customers, often operating as an extension of their engineering teams, to solve complex technical challenges through disciplined execution, responsive support, and deep domain expertise. With 56 years of microelectronics test and manufacturing experience across a broad range of product architectures and applications, we are known for quality, reliability, and practical engineering solutions.

Role Overview We are seeking an experienced RF Test Engineer to join our New Product Development team. You will develop custom hardware and software test solutions for high-performance RF, microwave, precision analog, mixed-signal, and digital ASICs and microelectronic components. The work spans early test strategy, characterization, calibration, fixture design, test automation, correlation, qualification, and transfer into repeatable wafer-level and packaged-device production.

This is a hands-on component test role centered on signal integrity, low-noise measurement, and measurement accuracy. It is not primarily a wireless systems, Wi-Fi, radio network, or communications protocol role. The strongest candidates will have direct experience applying RF test and measurement techniques to semiconductor devices, packaged components, hybrids, modules, or closely related hardware.

What You Will Do Develop, qualify, document, and release automated test solutions for RF, microwave, precision analog, mixed-signal, and digital devices into wafer-sort and packaged-device production.

Translate device specifications and customer requirements into practical test methods, test limits, hardware architectures, and software routines.

Use vector network analyzers (VNAs), spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters and sensors, noise sources, oscilloscopes, source-measure units, precision DMMs, and related instrumentation to characterize and validate device performance.

Develop RF measurement methods involving calibration, reference-plane management, fixture characterization, de-embedding, signal integrity, low-noise measurements, and test accuracy and uncertainty.

Design and implement custom test hardware, including rack-and-stack systems, switching and interconnect architectures, load boards, probe interfaces, fixtures, and circuit boards; perform schematic capture and support layout review.

Create maintainable test automation software and data workflows that control instruments, sequence tests, apply calibration and correction, evaluate results, and support production decision-making.

Develop and integrate wafer sort applications with probers and packaged-device applications with handlers and other factory equipment.

Perform hands-on troubleshooting of RF, analog, digital, electrical, mechanical, and software subsystems using schematics, layout files, measurement data, and structured experiments.

Validate and correlate test applications against customer specifications, bench methods, reference systems, golden units, and other appropriate standards.

Partner with Product Engineering, Process Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Program Management, suppliers, and customers to move new products from development into controlled, repeatable production.

Create clear design records, test plans, validation reports, operating instructions, and training materials; train technicians and operators to operate and maintain released test solutions.

Participate in peer reviews, root-cause investigations, Kaizen events, and continuous-improvement activities supporting quality, yield, cycle time, uptime, and long-term maintainability.

Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical field, with a minimum of five years of relevant engineering experience, or an equivalent combination of education and directly applicable military or industry experience.

Demonstrated experience developing test or characterization solutions for RF or microwave semiconductor devices, ASICs, packaged components, hybrids,…