PMIC Systems and Validation Engineer, Staff
This role involves working with Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs) that include switching DC-DC converters, linear regulators, clock oscillators, battery charger, fuel gauge, LED drivers, and ADCs.
Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves the system architecture, integration, and post-silicon validation of high-performance Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs) for various consumer electronics.
What you'll do
- Lead system definition, including HW/FW/SW partitioning, HW Register interfaces, and protocol selection.
- Develop and execute comprehensive functional validation plans, covering manual and automated test cases.
- Analyze validation results via HW-level signal measurements and debug issues.
- Perform risk assessment of development and validation plans.
- Support chipset integration and customer issue debug.
- Partner with Analog/Digital Design, Software, and Customer Engineering teams.
What you'll need
- 8 years of job-experience relevant to HW/S aspects of electronic product development.
- Bachelor's degree in Electronics related Engineering.
- Strong hands-on lab-experience in Post-Si Validation.
- Expertise in HW-level Bench measurement and/or SW-level logs-based verification.
- Hands-on ability in using lab instruments like oscilloscopes, power supplies, JTAG debuggers.
- Good Hardware Debug Skills related to DC -DC (SMPS, LDO) converters.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree with specialization in VLSI / Microelectronics, Power Management.
- Awareness of fundamentals of PMIC, Power Management, Microcontroller architecture, basic-firmware & HW-SW interaction.
- Programming skills in C#, F#, Python, Perl, LabVIEW or any other scripting language (used in VLSI/Embedded Domain) with OOPS concepts.
- Familiarity with HW schematics and ability to trace inter connections on a PCB.
- Experience in automating test-cases via SW-control for HW-systems.
- Prior experience in leading & executing white-box validation efforts of a HW-module or sub-module.
- Exposure to Assembly-language programming (for microcontroller).
- Exposure to tools like JIRA and GIT.
Skills: PMIC Systems & Validation Engineer, Power Management Integrated Circuits, switching DC-DC converters, functional validation plan, HW-level Bench measurement
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This role has been open 43 days — well below the 103-day median for Power Electronics roles.
Power Electronics · Power Management
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Open roles in category
71
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Median days open
103 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$174k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (71 roles · 21 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 71 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 70 | 1530 · 111 employers |
| Median days open | 85 d | 103 d (−18 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $174k |
Skills observed across this category: PMIC Systems & Validation Engineer, Power Management Integrated Circuits, switching DC-DC converters, functional validation plan, HW-level Bench measurement
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics · 13 open roles · median 93 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 8 open roles · median 84 d
- Infineon Technologies · 7 open roles · median 78 d
- NVIDIA · 6 open roles · median 203 d
- Analog Devices · 5 open roles · median 104 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 5 open roles · median 230 d
How we counted: 71 open Power Electronics (Power Management) roles from 21 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 Nov 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 Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Figures refresh nightly.