IPS Hardware Support Technician/Engineer
$34,190 - $51,290 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer.
Collaborate with hardware engineering teams in the development, validation, and deployment of chip test platforms.
About the role
This role involves supporting prototype hardware bring-up, debug, distribution, and new silicon validation activities. You will work on chip test platforms.
What you'll do
- Support prototype hardware bring-up, debug, distribution, and new silicon validation activities.
- Troubleshoot platform hardware and ASIC-related issues using test scripts and industry-standard lab equipment.
- Collect and analyze test data.
- Prepare technical reports to support engineering decision-making.
- Characterize and debug high-speed digital interfaces and RF subsystems through lab-based measurements and data analysis.
- Analyze and troubleshoot RF, analog, and digital baseband circuits using schematics, simulation results, and laboratory test equipment.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree and 1+ year of Support Engineering or related work experience, OR Associate's degree and 2+ years of Support Engineering or related work experience, OR High School Diploma or equivalent and 3+ years of Support Engineering or related work experience.
- Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, debug, and validation of prototype platforms.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex hardware and ASIC issues using automated test scripts and lab instrumentation.
- Strong understanding of power delivery, signal integrity, and high-speed interface design principles.
- Proficiency in reading schematics and technical documentation.
- Experience measuring and analyzing high-speed digital and RF signals.
- Proficiency with common hardware laboratory equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal analyzers, JTAG debuggers, FPGA programming tools, and related instrumentation.
- Demonstrated experience performing hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, and debug in a laboratory environment.
- Strong soldering and rework skills, including the ability to work with fine-pitch SMT components down to 01005 package sizes.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience in an R&D laboratory environment performing component-level hardware debug, root cause analysis, and validation of complex electronic systems.
- Strong understanding of cellular, wireless, and compute platform technologies, including key performance metrics and measurement techniques such as receiver sensitivity, transmit power, ACLR, EVM, signal integrity, jitter, power integrity, and IR drop.
- Knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, and system-level performance optimization in complex hardware platforms.
- Experience with digital and/or RF circuit design, including schematic review, component selection, and design validation.
- Familiarity with silicon bring-up, hardware validation, and characterization activities for prototype and pre-production systems.
Skills: hardware debug, ASIC issues, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signal integrity, RF measurement
This role has been open 43 days — slightly above the 41-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
400
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Median days open
41 d
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Median salary
$174k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (400 roles · 62 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 37 | 400 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 130 | 2223 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 26 d | 41 d (−15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $174k |
Skills observed across this category: hardware debug, ASIC issues, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signal integrity, RF measurement
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 41 d
- Micron Technology · 39 open roles · median 36 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 36 open roles · median 28 d
- NVIDIA · 25 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 21 open roles · median 119 d
- Microchip Technology · 19 open roles · median 69 d
How we counted: 400 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 62 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.