Sr. Embedded Systems Platform Manager

About the role

Define, lead, and deliver the embedded systems platform supporting mixed-signal power controller IC validation and qualification. This role owns the bench and emulation infrastructure used across the IC development lifecycle from pre-silicon validation planning through silicon bring-up, characterization, and qualification.

What you'll do

• Define and own the embedded systems platform strategy across IC development, validation, qualification, and applications support lifecycles.
• Establish architecture standards for emulation systems and reusable validation collateral including hardware, firmware, scripts, and documentation.
• Architect bench-level test systems covering functional, parametric, and closed-loop application validation for digital power controllers.
• Integrate and validate digital control-loop implementations of emulation platforms, correlating behavioral models against measured IC performance.
• Support pre-silicon design reviews and silicon bring-up by establishing baseline electrical characterization, automation, and control-loop commissioning procedures.
• Partner with applications and product engineering to reproduce issues, debug in the lab, and harden validation platforms for sustained use across programs.

What you'll need

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years in embedded systems, power electronics, or mixed-signal IC validation with progression to staff-level scope.
• Hands-on digital control-loop implementation experience, including compensation design, z-domain analysis, Type II/III, or state-space approaches.
• FPGA-based emulation or prototyping experience using VHDL/Verilog at the RTL or integration level.
• Bench automation experience using Python and SCPI with disciplined lab practices for repeatable characterization.
• Strong instrumentation skills with oscilloscopes, network analyzers, power analyzers, and electronic loads.
• Familiarity with power converter topologies including buck, boost, LLC, and PSFB, along with small-signal modeling.

Nice to have

• PMBus, AVSBus, or I2C/SPI digital power management protocol experience.
• Mixed-signal IC characterization, product engineering, or semiconductor applications background.
• SPICE, MATLAB/Simulink, or Python control library proficiency.

Skills: embedded systems platform, digital power controllers, digital control-loop implementation, FPGA-based emulation, bench automation

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