Principal Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

We are committed to sourcing, attracting, and hiring high-performance innovators, while providing all candidates a positive recruitment experience that builds our brand as a great place to work. 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. #LI-RG1 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. #LI-RG1 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 #LI-RG1