Lead, DC Instrumentation Board (High-Current Power)

Teradyne; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradyne in North Reading, MA is seeking an experienced hardware engineer to own the DC instrument boards from architecture through volume release. You will design high-current power supplies and four-quadrant source-measure instruments, translating system specs into board-level requirements and guiding layout and bring-up.

You will analyze power integrity, mitigate droop and overshoot, simulate control loops, and lead hardware bring-up with cross-functional teams.

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.

Responsibilities

• Translate system specifications into board-level requirements and tradeoffs across accuracy, transient response, density, power, thermal performance, cost, and schedule.
• Architect DC sourcing and measurement circuits from microamps to more than 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.
• Analyze power integrity across instrument, cabling, load board, and device under test.
• Analyze and mitigate droop, overshoot, ringing, and ground bounce during fast load transitions.
• Simulate control-loop stability, compensation, and transient response across sourcing, sinking, reactive loads, and operating quadrants.
• Maintain error budgets for offset, gain, drift, noise, leakage, and thermal effects.
• Design protection for overcurrent, overvoltage, overtemperature, short circuits, and fault isolation.
• Lead hardware bring-up and root-cause failures across hardware, firmware, software, and system interfaces.
• Execute characterization plans for regulation, transient response, efficiency, thermal behavior, fault handling, noise, and drift.
• Guide the design through compliance, DFM/DFT, pilot build, and volume release.

Skills

Power electronics

Instrumentation hardware design

Four-quadrant instruments

Schematic capture

PCB design tools

Lab measurement experience

Python or MATLAB

Contract manufacturers coordination

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

SPICE simulation

PCB design tools

Lab measurement equipment

Job description

Teradyne in North Reading, MA is seeking an experienced hardware engineer to own the DC instrument boards from architecture through volume release. You will design high-current power supplies and four-quadrant source-measure instruments, translating system specs into board-level requirements and guiding layout and bring-up.

You will analyze power integrity, mitigate droop and overshoot, simulate control loops, and lead hardware bring-up with cross-functional teams.