DC Instrument Board Lead

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Sep 10, 2026

North Reading, MA, US

We are the global test and automation specialists, powering next-generation technologies through sophisticated solutions. Behind every electronic device you use, Teradyne's test technology ensures your device works right the first time, every time! Our portfolio of automation solutions help manufacturers to develop and deliver products quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. Together,Teradyne companies deliver manufacturing automation across industries and applications around the world!

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At Teradyne, our employees work at the cutting edge of the electronics test industry. The semiconductor devices going into phones, cars, data centers, and AI accelerators are tested on our equipment before they ship. Our instruments help set the standard for what the industry can measure and how confidently it can ship silicon.

Every device our customers test is powered, biased, and measured by a DC instrument. As devices move to lower core voltages, higher currents, and faster load steps, DC performance has become one of the most challenging constraints in semiconductor test. A few millivolts of droop or a few microamps of leakage error can affect whether a device passes, fails, or is placed in the correct performance category.

The DC Hardware Group designs DC instrumentation used across Teradyne’s automated test equipment. This includes high-current device power supplies that provide fast-transient voltage sourcing from milliamps to more than 100 A, as well as four-quadrant source-measure instruments that provide bidirectional force and measurement across all voltage and current quadrants.

The group owns these modules from concept through production release and works closely with firmware, mechanical, software, calibration, test, and manufacturing engineering. These boards establish key platform performance characteristics, including noise floor, settling time, accuracy, and transient response.

We are looking for an experienced hardware engineer to serve as the technical owner of one or more DC instrument boards. You will own the design from architecture and schematic development through layout direction, bring-up, characterization, qualification, and volume release. Depending on program requirements, the board may be a high-current device power supply or a four-quadrant source-measure instrument.

• Translate system specifications into board-level requirements and tradeoffs across accuracy, transient response, density, power, thermal performance, cost, and schedule.
• Architect DC sourcing and measurement circuits from microamps to more than 100
  
  A.
• Develop fast-response voltage/current forcing, droop control, range switching, references, sequencing, and power distribution.
• Design four-quadrant output stages, including bidirectional power delivery, quadrant crossover, regulation, and compliance clamping.
• Verify safe operating area across required voltage and current ranges.
• Own force and measurement paths, including sensing, ranging, guarding, Kelvin sensing, settling, and leakage performance.
• Lead schematic capture, component selection, design-for-cost, and multilayer PCB layout direction.

• Optimize power integrity across the instrument, cabling, load board, and device under test.
• Analyze and mitigate droop, overshoot, ringing, and ground bounce during fast load transitions.
• Simulate control-loop stability, compensation, and transient response across sourcing, sinking, reactive loads, and operating quadrants.
• Maintain error budgets for offset, gain, drift, noise, leakage, and thermal effects.
• Design protection for overcurrent, overvoltage, over temperature, short circuits, and fault isolation.
• Lead hardware bring-up and root-cause failures across hardware, firmware, software, and system interfaces.
• Execute characterization plans for regulation, transient response, efficiency, thermal behavior, fault handling, noise, and drift.
• Guide the design through compliance, DFM/DFT, pilot build, and volume release.

• Ensure the module meets ATE requirements for timing, triggering, synchronization, calibration, and software…