Principal Validation Engineer - Catania, it, Italy
Originally posted 28 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading and defining validation strategies for complex power management products and technology platforms. You will contribute to ensuring new products meet electrical, functional, reliability, and performance requirements prior to production release.
What you'll do
- Drive the validation of analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power management ICs against electrical, functional, and performance specifications.
- Define and drive validation strategies, methodologies, and technical roadmaps across multiple products and technology platforms.
- Lead development of validation architectures, test frameworks, and automation strategies to improve product quality, coverage, and engineering efficiency.
- Identify technical risks, establish mitigation strategies, and drive risk-based validation execution to support successful product releases.
- Lead investigation and resolution of complex silicon and system-level issues through data-driven analysis, characterization, and root-cause identification.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to senior validation engineers and cross-functional project teams.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field, with 12-15 years of experience in power conversion, power management, semiconductor applications, or related system design.
- Expertise in validation methodologies, test strategy development, and coverage planning for complex mixed-signal and power management ICs.
- Deep expertise with laboratory instrumentation including oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, source meters, digital multimeters, waveform generators, logic analyzers, and thermal characterization equipment.
- Strong proficiency in Python programming, including development of automated test frameworks, laboratory automation solutions, and data analysis tools.
- Extensive experience with board-level analog and digital circuit design, schematic capture, PCB development, and hardware debugging.
- Extensive experience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI) activities from first silicon through production release.
Nice to have
- Concise and precise communication, both internal and with customers.
- Strong cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity within multisite and multicultural environments.
- Willingness to undertake occasional international travel.
- Excellent command of verbal and written English.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 25-day median for Silicon Test Engineering roles.
Silicon Test Engineering · DFT Test
|
Open roles in category
472
|
Median days open
25 d
|
Median salary
$184k
|
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (472 roles · 72 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 34 | 472 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 111 | 2154 · 110 employers |
| Median days open | 28 d | 25 d (+3 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $184k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Teradyne · 50 open roles · median 10 d
- Infineon Technologies · 37 open roles · median 32 d
- Renesas Electronics (this employer) · 33 open roles · median 28 d
- AMD · 26 open roles · median 26 d
- Micron Technology · 25 open roles · median 28 d
- Qualcomm · 25 open roles · median 13 d
How we counted: 472 open Silicon Test Engineering (DFT Test) roles from 72 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 28 Sept 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.