Validation Engineering Manager | mmWave/RF - Dallas, TX, United States
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
Support the radar portfolio of products across Automotive and Industrial markets.
About the role
As a Validation Engineering Manager, you will lead the mmWave/RF validation team supporting the radar portfolio of products across Automotive and Industrial markets. This role focuses on integrated RFCMOS radar technology, specifically the 60GHz & 77GHz product portfolio.
What you'll do
- Manage and direct validation teams through the validation process.
- Develop realistic schedules and report progress.
- Resolve technical and non-technical issues in real time.
- Drive projects to on-time completion.
- Design and document test systems and circuit boards in the 55 - 85 GHz range.
- Develop automation software to increase coverage and reduce data collection time.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, ECE, Computer Engineering or related field of study.
- 8 years of related engineering experience with strong experience in RF testing.
- Demonstrated leadership capacity.
- Good understanding of RF and analog systems, functional blocks, and performance metrics (intermodulation, compression, noise figure).
- In-depth understanding of test equipment and ability to design test systems and test methodology to support radios in the 55-85 GHz range.
- Ability to design support circuitry on validation platforms (power management, wireless receiver chains, power amplifiers).
- Ability to utilize test equipment, write simple scripts to control devices and equipment, and use tools such as MATLAB and ADS to analyze results.
- Basic understanding of electromagnetics.
Nice to have
- Background in RF Testing, Systems, or Design.
- Good understanding of signal processing to enable post processing of digitized signals and to understand the on-chip processing of devices.
- Familiarity/experience with advanced high-frequency PCB materials.
- Experience with mmWave circuit boards and test systems.
- Ability to manage off-site contract workers to develop characterization boards for mmWave devices.
- Electromagnetic simulation capability.
Skills: validation process, RF testing, mmWave, test equipment, PCB boards
This role has been open 10 days — well below the 41-day median for Post-Silicon Validation roles.
Post-Silicon Validation · Silicon Validation
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Open roles in category
398
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Median days open
41 d
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Median salary
$174k
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| Metric | Texas Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (398 roles · 62 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 12 | 398 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 99 | 2209 · 111 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 41 d (+10 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $174k |
Skills observed across this category: validation process, RF testing, mmWave, test equipment, PCB boards
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 42 d
- Micron Technology · 39 open roles · median 32 d
- Qualcomm · 34 open roles · median 27 d
- NVIDIA · 24 open roles · median 20 d
- Graphcore · 21 open roles · median 115 d
- Microchip Technology · 20 open roles · median 67 d
How we counted: 398 open Post-Silicon Validation (Silicon Validation) roles from 62 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.