Design Evaluation Engineer - Summer 2027

Originally posted 13 November 2026 by the employer.

About the role

Analog Devices is seeking an Entry-Level Design Evaluation Engineer to join the Power Management IC engineering team in San Jose, California, starting Summer 2027. You will perform post-silicon evaluation, validation, characterization, and test automation for power-management integrated circuits such as step-down and step-up converters, low-dropout regulators, and related mixed-signal power products.

What you'll do

• Perform hands-on laboratory evaluation and characterization of power-management ICs, including buck converters, boost converters, LDO regulators, and related mixed-signal functions.
• Support first-silicon and evaluation-board bring-up while executing validation plans across input/output voltages, load, switching frequency, operating modes, temperature, startup, shutdown, and fault conditions.
• Measure output accuracy, line and load regulation, efficiency, power loss, quiescent current, ripple, noise, transient response, switching behavior, current limit, and thermal performance.
• Capture and analyze oscilloscope waveforms for startup, shutdown, mode transitions, load transients, switching nodes, and protection events.
• Develop Python or C# scripts to control laboratory instruments, automate parameter sweeps, collect test data, and create plots.
• Assist with evaluation-board schematics, component selection, board bring-up, rework, fixture development, and review of power-layout considerations.

What you'll need

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline, completed or expected before the employment start date.
• Graduate-level foundation in analog circuits, electronics, and circuit analysis.
• Academic understanding of power electronics or power-management circuits, including linear regulators, buck converters, boost converters, feedback systems, or switched-mode power supplies.
• Hands-on laboratory experience with oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, bench power supplies, and electronic loads gained through university courses, research, thesis work, or projects.
• Basic programming ability in Python or another technical programming language to organize data and plot results.

Nice to have

• Exposure to automated instrument control using Python, PyVISA, LabVIEW, C#, or MATLAB.
• Experience measuring power-supply efficiency, ripple, noise, startup, load transients, or loop behavior.
• Familiarity with schematic capture, PCB layout, SPICE simulation, or evaluation-board development.
• Exposure to oscilloscopes with differential or current probes, SMUs, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, thermal equipment, or EMI measurement.
• Familiarity with digital control interfaces such as SPI, I²C, or PMBus.

Skills: post-silicon validation, PMIC, buck converters, boost converters, bench characterization

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