Validation/Characterization Engineer

Texas Instruments Incorporated; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Instruments Incorporated seeks a Validation Engineer in Santa Clara to design PCB boards and develop automation software that expands coverage and accelerates data collection for device validation.

You will measure device performance, troubleshoot issues, and work in a post-silicon lab or with software programs to run measurements, ensuring alignment with datasheet specs and VVCM guidelines.

Qualifications

• Design PCB boards and develop automation software to increase coverage.
• Verify device performance against datasheet specifications and VVCM requirements.
• Troubleshoot systems, equipment, and issues that arise during validation.

Responsibilities

• Design PCB boards and develop automation software for validation.
• Increase coverage and reduce data collection time in validation tests.
• Measure device performance and troubleshoot related systems and equipment.

Skills

PCB design

Automation software

Troubleshooting

Device performance measurement

Tools

Instrumentation tools

Job description

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Validation engineers are said to have a ';break-the-part'; mentality. This means they spend some of their time working to identify the use-cases in which the device will stop working as intended and understand the impact and cause of those failures. Sometimes, those are acceptable failures, but others we may need to mitigate for quality, safety, or other reasons. Plus, we want to ensure that our parts are consistently performing to the specifications that we set in our data sheet, and even to some more conservative limits or as defined in the VVCM (validation/verification compliance matrix). To do this, they must design PCB boards and develop automation software that will increase coverage and reduce data collection time. Validation engineers will also design, develop, and implement necessary methods of measuring device performance and troubleshooting any related systems, equipment or device issues that arise. Validation engineers are often working in a post-silicon lab or on the software programs required to run their measurements.