DC Instrument Board Lead — High-Current Power & Precision

Teradyne; Reading, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Robust benefits

Job summary

Teradyne’s DC Hardware Group is seeking an experienced hardware engineer to own DC instrument boards from architecture through production release. You will design high-current power supplies and four-quadrant source-measure instruments, guiding layout, bring-up, and qualification with cross-functional teams.

You will optimize power integrity, analyze transient responses, and lead hardware bring-up, root-cause analysis, and product release activities to ensure module performance and compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Six or more years in power electronics, precision analog, source-measure, or instrumentation hardware design.
• Experience owning a board from architecture through production release.
• Strong knowledge of regulation, power-stage design, feedback systems, control-loop stability, power integrity, transient analysis, and PDNs.
• Experience with precision analog circuits, including operational amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, references, and ADC/DAC interfaces.
• Experience with bidirectional or four-quadrant circuitry, including source/sink stages, current-mode regulation, compliance clamping, source-measure units, electronic loads, bipolar supplies, or battery-emulation channels.
• Proficiency with SPICE simulation, PDN modeling, schematic capture, PCB design tools, and multilayer mixed-signal layout.
• Hands-on lab experience with power measurement equipment and high-current test configurations.
• Ability to troubleshoot across hardware, firmware, software, and system interfaces.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, influence without authority, and clear engineering communication.
• Experience designing automated test equipment instrumentation, device power supplies, four-quadrant instruments, bench metrology equipment, electronic loads, or battery-emulation products.
• Knowledge of dynamic voltage scaling, digital power control, telemetry, FPGA, and microcontroller interfaces such as SPI, I2C, and LVDS.
• Experience with high-channel-count designs, thermal modeling, heatsink design, derating, reliability engineering, and long‑term stress testing.
• Experience with hardware/firmware co-debug and Python or MATLAB for characterization, automation, or data analysis.
• Experience working with contract manufacturers and improving DFM/DFT.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the DC instrument board from architecture to production release.
• Architect DC sourcing and measurement circuits from microamps to >100 A.
• Develop fast-response voltage/current forcing, droop control, range switching, references, sequencing, and power distribution.
• Design four-quadrant output stages, including bidirectional power delivery and regulation.
• Verify safe operating area across required voltage and current ranges.
• Own force and measurement paths, including sensing, ranging, guarding, Kelvin sensing, settling, and leakage performance.
• Lead schematic capture, component selection, design-for-cost, and multilayer PCB layout direction.

Skills

Power electronics

Precision analog

Four-quadrant instrumentation

Source-measure design

PCB layout & schematic

SPICE simulation

Python / MATLAB

DFM/DFT collaboration

Vendor management

Education

Electrical engineering degree

Tools

Schematic capture tools

PCB design tools

Job description

Teradyne’s DC Hardware Group is seeking an experienced hardware engineer to own DC instrument boards from architecture through production release. You will design high-current power supplies and four-quadrant source-measure instruments, guiding layout, bring-up, and qualification with cross-functional teams.

You will optimize power integrity, analyze transient responses, and lead hardware bring-up, root-cause analysis, and product release activities to ensure module performance and compliance