Senior Engineer I - Product - CA - San Jose - 3850 N. First St, United States
$70,304 - $205,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability and manufacturability of integrated FPGA products from development through production within the Product Engineering New Product Introduction (NPI) group.
What you'll do
- Provide hands-on support for product reliability qualification of FPGA products. - Apply statistical, electrical, and physical root cause failure analysis pre- and post-qualification. - Define qualification designs, develop hardware, verify experimental test conditions, and perform statistical data analysis. - Support production test flows by defining test limits, analyzing test coverage, performing root cause yield analysis, and ensuring datasheet compliance. - Validate on-chip components including micro-processors, high-speed I/O (SERDES and DDR), eNVM, SRAM, charge pumps, PLLs, and Analog I/Os. - Develop software, scripts, and automation tools using Verilog/VHDL, C, Python, and Perl, leveraging AI for verifying and testing FPGA/SOC products.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) with 5+ years of relevant experience. - Knowledge of semiconductor product qualifications under JEDEC standards. - Knowledge of silicon reliability and process failure mechanisms. - Hands-on experience with software automation and hardware development using Verilog/VHDL, C, Python, or Perl. - Experience using ATE, bench, and wafer test systems. - Experience using Agentic AI to develop tools for compiling, processing, and analyzing data.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree (MSEE or equivalent). - Knowledge of AECQ-100 and MIL-STD-883 standards.
Skills: product reliability qualification, yield analysis, ATE, JEDEC, AECQ-100
This role has been open 112 days — well above the 61-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
37
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Median days open
61 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | Microchip Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (37 roles · 16 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 37 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 65 | 2244 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 165 d | 61 d (+104 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: product reliability qualification, yield analysis, ATE, JEDEC, AECQ-100
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 8 open roles · median 61 d
- NVIDIA · 5 open roles · median 33 d
- Qualcomm · 4 open roles · median 57 d
- onsemi · 3 open roles · median 132 d
- Arm Holdings · 2 open roles · median 90 d
- Microchip Technology (this employer) · 2 open roles · median 164 d
How we counted: 37 open Product Engineering (Silicon Validation) roles from 16 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.