Senior Staff Validation Engineer

The Post-Silicon Validation team within the Performance Computing Power Division is building a world-class organization of highly skilled engineers across multiple global sites. Our mission is to push the boundaries of silicon validation for industry-leading integrated circuits enabling high-power, high-efficiency power management systems. 

We are committed to delivering the highest level of validation quality by continuously improving test coverage, measurement accuracy, repeatability, automation, and execution efficiency while reducing overall validation time. 

As a Senior Staff Validation Engineer, you will be part of a multidisciplinary global development team and play a key role in ensuring that every new product fully meets its electrical, functional, and performance specifications before release to production. You will work closely with Design, Applications, Product Engineering, Quality, and System teams to identify, debug, and resolve silicon and system-level issues while supporting aggressive product development and New Product Introduction (NPI) schedules. 

For our new Design Center in Catania, we are looking for a hand-on technical leader who thrive on innovation, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and is committed to delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced environment. 

Principal Responsibilities 

• Drive the validation of analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power management ICs against electrical, functional, and performance specifications. 
• Define the overall validation strategy and methodologies, develop comprehensive validation plans for complex products, platforms, or systems. 
• Ensure validation coverage, requirements traceability, and compliance with quality and industry standards. 
• Identify validation risks and develop mitigation plans to ensure product quality and schedule adherence. 
• Drive test automation, validation infrastructure, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality and efficiency of our advanced laboratory for complex post-silicon evaluation. 
• Hand-on with design of custom evaluation boards and supporting hardware for silicon characterization. 
• Hand-on with development of automated validation frameworks and measurement scripts using Python. 
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to validation engineers and project teams. 
• Assess product readiness, communicate risks, and provide release recommendations to engineering and business leadership. 
• Establish validation metrics and monitor quality performance to support data-driven decision making. 
• Collaborate closely with Design, Applications, Firmware, Product Engineering, and Quality teams to investigate and resolve silicon and system-level bugs. 
• Evaluate silicon validation results, analyze performances at device, board, and system level, identifying, documenting, and tracking silicon and application issues.

Function: Manufacturing
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level