About the role
This role involves taking custom silicon devices from first power-on to production readiness, collaborating across analog design, logic design, and package design teams.
What you'll do
- Lead silicon bring up for new tape-outs from initial power-on through functional validation
- Develop and execute structured test plans covering functional and performance validation
- Characterize analog and digital circuit behavior against product specifications
- Build automated test infrastructure using Python for high-throughput characterization
- Debug complex mixed-signal devices using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and protocol analyzers
- Validate high-speed interfaces including signal integrity analysis
- Root-cause issues and distinguish design vs. process vs. board-level failures
What you'll need
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience
- Hands-on chip or system bringup and validation experience
- Proficiency in Python for test automation and data analysis
- Experience validating high-speed serial interfaces
- Understanding of analog fundamentals: signal integrity, transmission lines, feedback theory, and voltage/current source compliance testing
- Knowledge of frequency-domain and time-domain measurements
- Solid analog circuit knowledge: bias networks, LDOs, PLLs, ADCs/DACs, and mixed-signal interfaces
- Ability to read and interpret schematics, layout files, and datasheet specifications
- SOC Circuitry: DMA, Cache, DDR, SRAM, IPC, Timers / PTP, OTP
- Hands on experience with Digital comms: SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, CAN, SWD, JTAG
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- PVT corner characterization and yield analysis experience
- Prior ASIC tape-out experience from prototype to production
- Reliability testing exposure: HTOL, ELFR, ESD/latch-up
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This role has been open 46 days — well below the 64-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
133
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Median days open
64 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$194k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Lyte AI | All employers we track in this specialty (133 roles · 34 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 133 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 6 | 2395 · 121 employers |
| Median days open | 46 d | 64 d (−18 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $194k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 19 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 16 open roles · median 77 d
- NVIDIA · 15 open roles · median 88 d
- Arm Holdings · 9 open roles · median 11 d
- Graphcore · 9 open roles · median 144 d
- Micron Technology · 6 open roles · median 216 d
How we counted: 133 open Post-Silicon Validation (Design Verification) roles from 34 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 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 Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.