# Senior Silicon Validation & Characterization Engineer

The opportunity Cirrus Logic builds mixed-signal products that power audio and power-management experiences for leading consumer brands. 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. You’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. What you'll do Perform 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. Build and improve automated lab setups and test software using Python, PXI systems, and bench top (or lab)instrumentation. Design validation boards and review schematics and layouts; measure and analyze performance, margins, robustness, and corner conditions. Partner across engineering teams to debug silicon issues, find root causes, and connect validation results to production test limits and guard bands.

- **Id**: 3981319
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cirrus-logic-senior-silicon-validation-characterization-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T21:56:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:51:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2253
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, Analog & Power Semiconductors

## Company

- **Id**: 449717
- **Name**: Cirrus Logic
- **Domain**: cirrus.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cirrus-logic>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 70
- **Open postings**: 119
- **Ghost share**: 0.412
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 63
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T19:51:20Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 4 · green card filings: 4; Filings 12m: 4

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 63
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T21:05:12Z

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