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We’re looking for a Senior Validation & Characterization Engineer to join our Austin team and take a hands-on role bringing complex ICs from first silicon to production release.\nYou’ll work across lab validation, automation, data analysis, and silicon debug, partnering with design, systems, product test, applications, and reliability teams. Our products span audio CODECs, amplifiers, haptics and sensing, power delivery, and battery management.\nWhat you'll do\nPerform hands-on silicon validation and characterization from first silicon through production release, contributing to test plans and coverage for analog, digital, and mixed-signal blocks.\nBuild and improve automated lab setups and test software using Python, PXI systems, and bench top (or lab)instrumentation.\nDesign validation boards and review schematics and layouts; measure and analyze performance, margins, robustness, and corner conditions.\nPartner across engineering teams to debug silicon issues, find root causes, and connect validation results to production test limits and guard bands.\nStrengthen validation methods, documentation, and lab efficiency; clearly present findings and provide technical guidance to junior engineers.\nWhat you’ll bring\nA bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, with 5+ years of relevant industry experience.\nHands-on experience with silicon validation, characterization, or post-silicon debug of mixed-signal ICs.\nUnderstanding of mixed-signal blocks such as ADCs, DACs, PLLs, amplifiers, regulators, andsensors.\nExperience developing automated test software; 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