Senior Wafer Test Hardware Engineer — Validation & Probes

Google; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s hardware testing team seeks an experienced engineer to design, validate, and scale test protocols for advanced semiconductor displays and prototype machinery. You will collaborate closely with design and manufacturing teams to ensure reliability and quality across hardware and software paths.

The role focuses on developing test equipment for prototypes, validating components, and defining data-driven processes to support mass deployment across global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a specialized field (e.g., Optics, Sensors, Audio/DSP, etc.), or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in writing semiconductor functional tests, including register-level writes/reads and validation on production data.
• 2 years proven experience with wafer-level probe technologies, including troubleshooting and failure analysis.
• Experience validating hardware and software paths, including step-by-step component validation (e.g., verifying pin-to-pad contact and communication).

Responsibilities

• Drive the specification process for a parallel wafer-level test tool, coordinating with internal teams on pad accommodations and initial bring‑up plans.
• Define and execute the hardware/software validation path, verifying individual vendor components (such as single-die verification or pin-to-pad communication) independently from the complete solution.
• Assemble comprehensive test plans, including defining instruction sets for our unique displays.
• Define input and output data streams with vendors, and coordinate test and information systems (IS) infrastructure to manage and transfer massive die-level datasets.
• Define the operational flow, integrate the reliability tool with the manufacturing execution system (MES), and establish clear standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Skills

Semiconductor tests experience

Wafer-level probe technologies

Hardware/software validation

Education

Bachelors in EE/CE/CS/Physics or related field

Tools

JMP

Python

SQL

Job description

Google’s hardware testing team seeks an experienced engineer to design, validate, and scale test protocols for advanced semiconductor displays and prototype machinery. You will collaborate closely with design and manufacturing teams to ensure reliability and quality across hardware and software paths.

The role focuses on developing test equipment for prototypes, validating components, and defining data-driven processes to support mass deployment across global teams.