Senior Principal Product Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States
$308,600 - $417,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 July 2026 by the employer.
The role supports product introduction in areas such as 2.5D/3DIC and sub-3nm nodes across ATE and SLT flows.
About the role
The Senior Principal Product Engineer guides manufacturability across foundry and assembly while owning the manufacturing flow across ATE and SLT. The role focuses on introducing products in areas such as 2.5D/3DIC and sub-3nm nodes from pre-silicon readiness through post-silicon bring-up.
What you'll do
- Own technical pre/post silicon operations across product engineering, aligning cross-functionally with design, packaging, software, silicon validation, test, and quality. - Serve as the point of contact for SoC manufacturing operations with foundries, OSATs, and ASIC vendors to ensure NPI/HVM readiness and conduct manufacturing facility audits. - Own post-silicon manufacturing test flow, yield improvement, silicon and package reliability qualification, PVTF characterization, and electrical failure analysis on ATE/SLT. - Drive ATE to system correlation of Sensors, VF across PVT, Vmin/Fmax characterization, and fusing. - Collaborate with line-of-business and architecture teams to translate product requirements into manufacturable designs. - Travel up to 20% internationally for company and partner meetings.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, with a CPU, SoC, or GPU silicon bring-up and product engineering background. - Minimum 16 years of experience in product engineering, including manufacturing test, yield improvement, silicon characterization, and reliability qualification. - Existing relationships with foundries, OSATs, and ASIC vendors ecosystem. - Broad expertise in ATE and SLT test concepts (Scan, BIST, Sensors, functional on ATE, bare metal, and application on SLT) alongside characterization and correlation methodologies. - Strong understanding of device physics, digital/mixed-signal design, foundry and assembly processes, and CPU/GPU/SoC power and performance dependencies.
Nice to have
- Experience with advanced foundry and assembly process. - Leadership experience in an engineering organization.
Skills: product engineering, pre/post silicon operations, manufacturing test, yield improvement, silicon characterization, reliability qualification
This role has been open 88 days — well above the 59-day median for Product Engineering roles.
Product Engineering · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
38
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Median days open
59 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | Arm Holdings | All employers we track in this specialty (38 roles · 17 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 38 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 16 | 2227 · 113 employers |
| Median days open | 88 d | 59 d (+29 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: product engineering, pre/post silicon operations, manufacturing test, yield improvement, silicon characterization, reliability qualification
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 8 open roles · median 59 d
- NVIDIA · 5 open roles · median 31 d
- Qualcomm · 4 open roles · median 55 d
- onsemi · 3 open roles · median 130 d
- Arm Holdings (this employer) · 2 open roles · median 88 d
- Microchip Technology · 2 open roles · median 162 d
How we counted: 38 open Product Engineering (Silicon Validation) roles from 17 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 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.