Senior Automated Test Equipment (ATE) Test Engineer

Renesas Electronics India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics India Pvt Ltd in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Staff ATE Test Engineer to lead advanced test development for analog/digital/mixed-signal devices. You will drive qualification, characterization, and production support, acting as a technical lead and mentor.

The role requires 10–12+ years of ATE experience, proficiency with DMDX or STS8300, and programming in C++, Python. You will collaborate with product engineering, operations, and external teams to enable scalable test solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering required.
• 10–12+ years hands-on ATE experience.
• Experience with analog, digital and mixed-signal testing.

Responsibilities

• Develop best of class test programs to support key NPI and quality initiatives.
• Support qualification, characterization, and correlation of developed products.
• Train and guide more junior team members for independent success.
• Work with leadership to implement processes, guidelines and specifications for the test group.
• Implement and develop baseline software and hardware solutions for scaling the broader team.
• Coordinate with product engineering and operations to enable seamless production ramp and release.
• Support production yield and customer return activities for quality.
• Act as a test platform expert on the ATE equipment in use for the test group.
• Mentor younger engineers and manage external technical relationships.

Skills

ATE expertise

Team mentoring

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

DMDX

STS8300

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Spectrum Analyzers

Job description

Senior Staff ATE Test Engineer

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, Analog and Power products, plus winning combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you. Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

Position Summary As a Senior Staff Test Engineer, you will be responsible to apply a broad level of expertise and knowledge in test discipline, leading and contributing to the development of the company objectives and principles to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. This position will work on significant and unique issues, where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. You will be required to apply conceptual thinking to understand advanced issues and their implications. It will be necessary to exercise independent judgement in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results, for which you will be held responsible and may impact the larger business. In the more senior role in this range, you will be expected to create formal networks involving coordination among groups, focusing on providing thought leadership while working on projects that affect the broader organization, and will require an understanding of the larger business. This role will require conveying advanced information and persuading a diverse set of stakeholders as needed. In this role you will be expected and acknowledged as a subject matter expert and may direct the activities of others as a technical lead. You will be fully accountable for the results of yourself and your team members. In the more junior role, you will work as a part of the technical team executing the objectives understood to expected milestones, with accountability on results. In both cases, you will work with your team/leadership to set schedules and to meet commitments. You will endeavor to identify enablement or readiness gaps and close them. Senior people will provide technical support as needed to their peers, and more junior members will request support as required to stay on track. When conflict in priorities occur, you will work resolve them and/or set updated expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop best of class test programs to support key NPI, quality & capability initiatives
• Support qualification, characterization, and correlation of developed products
• Train and guide more junior team members, building their skill sets and capabilities for independent success
• Work with leadership to implement processes, procedures, guidelines and specifications that define and drive execution and quality for the test group
• Implement and develop baseline software and hardware solutions for scaling the broader team or organization
• Determine and report ROI inputs for planning and test flow with revenue, COGS and capacity mindfully in focus
• Complete quality planning, hardware and software reviews for the test group
• Coordinate with product engineering and operations to enable seamless production ramp and release
• Support production yield and customer return activities for quality
• Act as a test platform expert on the ATE equipment in use for the test group
• Serve as a mentor for younger and less experienced engineers
• Support the tech/lab team in dealing with equipment calibration and maintenance issues and planning as required
• Manage 3rd party relationships and building success with external technical teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or Computer Science 10 to 12+ years of experience working with Automated Test Systems (ATE).
• 10 to 12+ years of hands‑on experience in ATE test development for analog, digital and mixed signal, with a strong focus on analog power product testing and high current testing.
• Experience on ATE platforms like DMDX, STS8300 is a plus.
• Experience in programming such as C++, basic, Perl, python, etc.
• Experience in testing and collecting data on IC chips or circuits using standard tools such as Oscilloscopes, Multimeters, Spectrum Analyzers, etc.
• Proficient with ATE analog digital instruments, PCB layout parasitic reduction, and strong debug/troubleshooting experience
• Hands‑on experience in debugging analog products with serial bus interfaces
• Experience with test hardware and test program development

Experience Level Senior Level

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement .