Director, Software Engineering (Power Test, Deer Park)
$234,600 - $375,400 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role leads Teradyne's Power Test Division's global software organization, overseeing the execution, quality, and technical direction of software supporting PTD platforms, test program development environments, instrument control, and customer-facing tools.
What you'll do
- Lead a globally distributed software organization, including staffing, skills development, career paths, and resource balance.
- Develop and execute the PTD software roadmap, approving program sizing, staffing plans, and schedule baselines.
- Collaborate with Product Architecture and engineering partners to define software architecture direction, evaluate feasibility, and resolve design or schedule issues.
- Build a Software QA function and improve engineering quality through modern architecture, code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, release management, and reduced technical debt.
- Partner with customers and cross-functional leaders on software capability, roadmap priorities, escalations, platform strategy, and engineering practices.
- Sustain measurable AI-assisted development adoption through effective tooling, practices, guardrails, practitioner communities, and demonstrated productivity gains.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years leading software organizations and experience leading managers.
- Proven success leading globally distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures.
- Track record of delivering complex software on committed schedules in a hardware-software product environment.
- Depth in modern software engineering practices, including architecture, code quality, automated testing, continuous integration, and release management.
- Demonstrated ability to work as a peer to hardware and systems engineering leaders and engage credibly with customers.
- Strong people leadership, including hiring, manager development, mentorship, and creating an environment where engineers can grow and succeed.
Nice to have
- Automated test equipment, semiconductor capital equipment, or scientific and industrial instrumentation experience.
- Familiarity with power semiconductor or precision analog test applications, test program development environments, and instrument control software.
- Hands-on experience deploying AI-assisted development tooling across an engineering organization.
- Experience managing offshore and contract development resources.
This role has been open 14 days — well below the 29-day median for Silicon Test Engineering roles.
Silicon Test Engineering · DFT Test
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Open roles in category
543
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Median days open
29 d
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Median salary
$173k
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| Metric | Teradyne | All employers we track in this specialty (543 roles · 76 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 71 | 543 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 89 | 2220 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 23 d | 29 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $173k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Teradyne (this employer) · 71 open roles · median 23 d
- Renesas Electronics · 44 open roles · median 23 d
- Infineon Technologies · 41 open roles · median 38 d
- Qualcomm · 28 open roles · median 28 d
- Micron Technology · 27 open roles · median 36 d
- Texas Instruments · 24 open roles · median 23 d
How we counted: 543 open Silicon Test Engineering (DFT Test) roles from 76 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.