Senior Hardware Engineer, Systems Integration - Hands-On

Teradyne Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Teradyne's IST Hardware Engineering team is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to lead integration, bring-up, and troubleshooting of system-level test hardware. You will work closely with Teradyne and customer engineering teams to diagnose complex issues at circuit, board, and system levels in Sunnyvale/San Jose area.

The role emphasizes strong board-level fundamentals, collaboration across disciplines, and hands-on problem solving with a focus on reliability and testability.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Typically 5+ years of hands-on electronic hardware engineering, integration, validation, or debug experience.
• Strong knowledge of digital electronics with analog and mixed-signal circuitry.
• Experience with embedded processors, microcontrollers, FPGA, and interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, USB, DDR, I²C, SPI, UART, GPIO, or JTAG.
• Working knowledge of board-level power conversion, regulation, sequencing and distribution, plus PCB concepts including controlled impedance, differential signaling, grounding, and power distribution.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated technical ownership and the ability to work independently and effectively with customer and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience with semiconductor test, automated test equipment, instrumentation, computing platforms, or other complex electronic systems is preferred.
• Experience with customer-facing engineering, multilayer PCBA debug, DFM/DFT, EMI/EMC, thermal, signal or power integrity, Python-based laboratory automation, or technical mentoring is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on integration, hardware bring-up, characterization, validation, and troubleshooting of Teradyne hardware with customer systems and devices.
• Investigate complex hardware and system interoperability issues, reproduce customer-observed problems, develop experiments, and drive root-cause analysis and resolution.
• Analyze schematics, circuit behavior, interfaces, board-level power, and high- and low-speed digital signals using oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, digital multimeters, power supplies, electronic loads, and other laboratory equipment.
• Partner directly with customer engineering teams to understand requirements and integration challenges, and clearly communicate technical findings, risks, recommendations, and next steps.
• Collaborate across hardware, firmware, FPGA, software, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, and test engineering teams, providing feedback that improves product design, testability, and reliability.
• Support circuit modifications, prototypes, test hardware, and engineering changes as needed, while independently driving assigned technical problems to resolution.

Skills

Hardware engineering

Digital electronics

Analog/mixed-signal

Embedded processors

FPGA

PCIe interface

Ethernet

USB interface

JTAG

Power delivery

Education

BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Protocol analyzers

Digital multimeters

Power supplies

EMI/EMC lab equipment

Python (lab automation)

Job description

Teradyne's IST Hardware Engineering team is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to lead integration, bring-up, and troubleshooting of system-level test hardware. You will work closely with Teradyne and customer engineering teams to diagnose complex issues at circuit, board, and system levels in Sunnyvale/San Jose area.

The role emphasizes strong board-level fundamentals, collaboration across disciplines, and hands-on problem solving with a focus on reliability and testability.