Power IP and System Validation Engineer - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 15 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves driving post-silicon bring-up, characterization, and validation of analog and mixed-signal power-management IP for advanced AMD products. You will work at the intersection of silicon, firmware, systems, and laboratory validation to evaluate IP performance.
What you'll do
- Lead post-silicon bring-up, characterization, and validation of analog and mixed-signal power-management IP.
- Develop and execute characterization plans to evaluate IP performance against specifications across voltage, frequency, temperature, and process conditions.
- Analyze silicon measurement data and tune IP operating parameters, including voltage-frequency curves, voltage margins, power-gating sequences, and oscillator calibration.
- Develop and maintain firmware routines and control algorithms that configure and operate power-management IP.
- Debug silicon failures and performance shortfalls by correlating laboratory measurements, firmware traces, register activity, RTL behavior, and schematic-level design information.
- Partner with analog mixed-signal design, RTL, platform firmware, validation, and production teams to resolve characterization findings.
What you'll need
- Experience with post-silicon bring-up, debug, validation, and characterization.
- Experience characterizing analog or mixed-signal power-management IP on CPU, GPU, or other complex SoC platforms.
- Proficiency using laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, power analyzers, network analyzers, protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, thermal-control equipment, and bench power supplies.
- Understanding of on-die power-management technologies, including integrated voltage regulators, low-dropout regulators, power-gating controllers, system-monitoring sensors, and voltage-frequency curve generation.
- Firmware development experience using C or C++ for embedded microcontrollers, system-management units, security processors, or similar control processors.
- Programming and scripting experience with Python, Linux Bash, Perl, Ruby, or comparable languages.
Nice to have
- Experience with board-level and platform-level debug, including power delivery, sequencing, analysis, and optimization.
- Knowledge of power-measurement techniques, including on-die current sensing, power-distribution-network probing, and voltage-drop measurement.
- Experience with hardware assembly, laboratory automation, and remote laboratory operations.
- Familiarity with analog building blocks such as voltage regulators, digital-to-analog converters, analog-to-digital converters, comparators, oscillators, and bandgap references.
- Knowledge of design-for-debug techniques and debug interfaces such as JTAG, M&M, SPMI, and scan-based architectures.
- Experience developing test automation, data-collection, and analysis solutions.
- Familiarity with Windows scripting for platform-level validation environments.
- Experience using source-control systems such as Git or Perforce.
- Familiarity with Portable Stimulus Standard or comparable test-specification frameworks.
- Experience using Python data-analysis libraries such as pandas or NumPy, SQL databases, or comparable data-processing tools.
- Familiarity with MATLAB or similar tools for signal processing, characterization analysis, curve fitting, and data visualization.
- Experience developing scalable data pipelines and analyzing large characterization datasets.
- Working knowledge of networking and remote-management tools such as SSH and SCP.
Skills: post-silicon bring-up, characterization, validation, power-management IP, firmware routines, automation scripts
This role has been open 29 days — well below the 41-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
412
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Median days open
41 d
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Median salary
$166k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (412 roles · 61 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 59 | 412 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 151 | 2224 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 40 d | 41 d (−1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $166k |
Skills observed across this category: post-silicon bring-up, characterization, validation, power-management IP, firmware routines, automation scripts
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD (this employer) · 58 open roles · median 41 d
- Micron Technology · 39 open roles · median 37 d
- Qualcomm · 37 open roles · median 27 d
- NVIDIA · 25 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 21 open roles · median 120 d
- Microchip Technology · 20 open roles · median 70 d
How we counted: 412 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 61 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.