Test Engineer - Wide Vin Buck - Phoenix, AZ, United States
Verification, Validation & Test
Originally posted 18 September 2026 by the employer — open 2 days.
About the role
This role involves driving testing for highly integrated multi-rail power management devices, specifically focusing on new DCDC converter products.
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 characterizing silicon on ATE and correlate results with bench data.
- Analyze silicon results and support failure analysis tasks.
- Perform statistical analysis of yield fallout, debug and fix yield issues, and optimize test time.
- Work with the production team to release products to volume production.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Systems or related Engineering degree.
- 3+ years of relevant Test Engineering experience.
- ATE development experience on ETS364 and ETS800 platforms.
- 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.
- Experienced with various lab equipment such as scopes, power supplies, sourcemeters, 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
- Experience/Knowledge in developing test systems for power topologies.
- Experienced with test program and hardware offload to TI offshore manufacturing sites.
- Proficiency in programming/scripting in C++, Python, C#.
Market context
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 24-day median for Silicon Test Engineering roles.
Silicon Test Engineering · DFT Test
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Open roles in category
408
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Median days open
24 d
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Median salary
$184k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Texas Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (408 roles · 68 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 11 | 408 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 72 | 2024 · 111 employers |
| Median days open | 22 d | 24 d (−2 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $184k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Teradyne · 50 open roles · median 2 d
- Infineon Technologies · 37 open roles · median 29 d
- Renesas Electronics · 33 open roles · median 30 d
- Micron Technology · 26 open roles · median 22 d
- Qualcomm · 24 open roles · median 18 d
- AMD · 19 open roles · median 26 d
How we counted: 408 open Silicon Test Engineering (DFT Test) roles from 68 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 Sept 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.