Test Engineer | HSAMPS - Tucson, AZ, United States
Originally posted 25 September 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on testing integrated, high-speed, high-performance analog devices.
About the role
This role involves driving the testing of integrated, high-speed, high-performance analog devices. The work includes probe and final test development of complex mixed-signal circuits.
What you'll do
- Work with the design team to understand design specifications.
- Generate test plans, create test and characterization programs, and design ATE hardware interface boards.
- Debug and characterize silicon on ATE, correlating results with bench data.
- Analyze silicon results, supporting failure analysis tasks.
- Perform statistical analysis of yield fallout, debug and fix yield issues, and optimize test time.
- Define and implement test strategy for new products and develop ATE hardware and software.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
- 3 years of relevant experience.
- ATE experience on Teradyne Eagle, Advantest Exascale, or equivalent analog ATE (iFlex, LTX, VLCT).
- Characterization test program and hardware development experience, production test program and hardware development experience.
- Strong technical knowledge of electronic devices and circuits, and analog test techniques.
- Data analysis skills using Spotfire, dataPower, or equivalent tool based on STDF.
- Experience with various lab equipment such as scopes, power supplies, source meters, loads.
- Experience with product engineering activities such as yield improvement and test time reduction.
- Strong understanding of the IC product development process, from concept to volume production.
Nice to have
- Mixed-signal test techniques and experience with developing mixed-signal tests on TI roadmap testers.
- Experience with test program and hardware offload to TI offshore manufacturing sites.
- Proficiency in programming/scripting in C++, Java, Python, C#.
- Proficiency in statistical analysis of test data.
- Revision control tools experience: Git.
This role has been open 15 days — well below the 25-day median for Silicon Test Engineering roles.
Silicon Test Engineering · DFT Test
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Open roles in category
526
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Median days open
25 d
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Median salary
$169k
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| Metric | Texas Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (526 roles · 75 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 22 | 526 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 98 | 2196 · 111 employers |
| Median days open | 19 d | 25 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Teradyne · 68 open roles · median 22 d
- Renesas Electronics · 39 open roles · median 25 d
- Infineon Technologies · 38 open roles · median 34 d
- AMD · 28 open roles · median 37 d
- Micron Technology · 28 open roles · median 31 d
- Qualcomm · 25 open roles · median 24 d
How we counted: 526 open Silicon Test Engineering (DFT Test) roles from 75 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.