Staff Engineer - Characterization

About the role

We are seeking a hands-on and detail-oriented Board Evaluation and Characterization Engineer to support bring-up, testing, and electrical characterization of evaluation boards and silicon devices. This role involves working closely with design, validation, and test teams to ensure system-level functionality, electrical compliance, and performance verification of silicon in real-world hardware environments.

What you'll do

• Lead evaluation and bring-up of custom evaluation boards, reference designs, and test platforms for SoCs, MCUs, or ASICs
• Perform electrical characterization of interfaces (e.g., USB, SPI, I²C, ADC, DDR, Ethernet)
• Measure signal integrity, power sequencing, voltage drops, and current consumption using lab equipment
• Collaborate with design and layout teams to review schematics, board stack-ups, and layout constraints
• Work with test teams to correlate bench and ATE data

What you need

• 7–13 yrs of experience
• PCB design
• Embedded C
• Python
• Perl
• B.Tech or B.E. or M.Tech