Hardware Lab Technician - San Jose, California, United States
Originally posted 17 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Hardware Lab Technician, you will work inside the in-office hardware lab performing chip-level bring-up, validation, and testing on custom silicon boards. You will work closely with hardware engineering to verify hardware and prepare builds for production.
What you'll do
- Build and bring up hardware from individual components through full system integration, ensuring units are verified and spec-compliant. - Troubleshoot issues across hardware, power delivery, and cooling subsystems, isolating root cause and partnering with design engineers to implement fixes. - Execute structured test plans for system-level and board-level validation, capturing clean, repeatable data for hardware and test engineering teams. - Maintain lab equipment, test benches, and diagnostic tools to keep the lab organized, calibrated, and operational. - Document builds, bring-up steps, test results, and known issues to provide clear records for engineering teams. - Support rapid iteration during bring-up cycles as designs change and new hardware revisions arrive in the lab.
What you'll need
- Associate's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience. - 2-5 years of hands-on experience in a hardware lab, system-level test environment, or similar bring-up/validation role. - Hands-on debugging experience using test equipment including oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, and bench power supplies. - Ability to read schematics, wiring diagrams, and test specs to isolate root causes on hardware issues.
Skills: chip-level bring-up, validation, oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers
This role has been open 95 days — well above the 43-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
420
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Median days open
43 d
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Median salary
$168k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | persimmons | All employers we track in this specialty (420 roles · 62 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 420 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 1 | 2242 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 95 d | 43 d (+52 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $168k |
Skills observed across this category: chip-level bring-up, validation, oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 47 d
- Micron Technology · 38 open roles · median 39 d
- Qualcomm · 38 open roles · median 27 d
- NVIDIA · 26 open roles · median 24 d
- Microchip Technology · 22 open roles · median 72 d
- Graphcore · 20 open roles · median 125 d
How we counted: 420 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 62 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 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.