Principal Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

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Employer Description

onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.

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Job Summary

We are seeking a Principal Post-Silicon Validation Engineer to lead silicon bring-up, characterization, validation, and debug of mixed-signal image sensor products. The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership, define validation strategies, drive complex debug activities, and influence product quality from development through production.

Responsibilities

• Lead post-silicon bring-up, validation, characterization, and debug of mixed-signal and image sensor products.
• Define validation strategies, test plans, and coverage methodologies.
• Architect and enhance validation platforms, automation frameworks, and debug infrastructure.
• Drive root cause analysis and resolution of complex silicon, hardware, firmware, and system-level issues.
• Collaborate with Design, Verification, Firmware, Product Engineering, Reliability, and Manufacturing teams to ensure product quality and successful execution.
• Analyze validation data and provide technical recommendations to improve product performance, reliability, and yield.
• Drive innovation, automation, and continuous improvement in validation methodologies and processes.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across validation programs.
• Support product qualification, customer escalations, and strategic debug activities.

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• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in post-silicon validation, characterization, or bench validation of analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor products.
• Strong expertise in silicon bring-up, debug methodologies, failure analysis, and root cause investigation.
• Hands-on experience with lab equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and power measurement instruments.
• Proficiency in Python scripting for automation, test development, and data analysis.
• Strong understanding of interfaces and protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, MIPI CSI-2, and USB.
• Proven experience defining validation strategies and leading complex validation efforts across multiple product programs.
• Experience with image sensor validation, characterization, debug, and image quality analysis is preferred.
• Exposure to pre-silicon verification, FPGA prototyping, or emulation is a plus.
• Experience with statistical characterization, PVT analysis, and production test correlation is desirable.
• Strong communication, technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation, influence technical direction, and establish validation best practices

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