Technical Staff Engineer – Validation

Responsibilities

• Lead development, ownership, and execution of validation strategies and test plans aligned with product requirements, technical risk, customer impact, program schedules, and market needs
• Perform and lead lab‑based validation, including design bring‑up, characterization, and interoperability testing for high‑speed connectivity devices
• Review, analyze, and clearly communicate validation results, debug findings, and recommendations to project and management stakeholders
• Specify and design test environments including software, lab equipment, and test board requirements
• Serve as a cross‑functional validation interface, collaborating closely with Design, Verification, Applications, Marketing and Product Engineering teams
• Responsible for leading cross‑functional debug and root‑cause discussions along with owning and driving JIRA‑based debug workflows
• Support customer issue reproduction and escalations by collaborating with Applications and Field Engineering teams
• Mentor junior validation engineers
• Contribute to continuous improvement of validation processes, metrics, and best practices

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience leading teams of 5 or more direct reports.
• 12+ Years combined experience in one or more of the following:
  High-Speed Digital design/testing, Analog/Mixed-Signal design/testing, Systems design/testing, Power IC Design and/or Test
• Prior experience driving cross functional teams and projects
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organization skills and the ability to develop hardware design specification based on input from multiple stakeholders and specifications.
• Strong working knowledge of Electronics Lab equipment, e.g., Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Protocol Analyzer (any protocol)
• Must be self-motivated and able to work in collaborative group environment or independently.

• validation strategies
• test plans
• high-speed connectivity devices
• design bring‑up
• characterization
• interoperability testing
• debug workflows
• hardware design specification
• Power IC Design
• Analog/Mixed-Signal design/testing

• leadership
• communication
• organization
• collaboration
• mentoring
• problem-solving
• self-motivation
• cross-functional teamwork
• stakeholder management
• continuous improvement