# Junior Electronic Hardware Test Engineer (Characterization Engineer)

SUMMARY: A leading semiconductor technology company based in Paarl, Western Cape is seeking a Junior Electronic Hardware Test Engineer (Characterization Engineer) to join its specialist IC development team. POSITION INFO: This exciting opportunity is ideal for an electronics engineer who enjoys hands-on hardware testing, data analysis, embedded development, and problem-solving. The successful candidate will play a key role in the testing and characterization of integrated circuits, including microcontrollers, analog sensors, magnetic sensors, capacitive sensors, light sensors, and LED driver technologies. Working closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams, you will be responsible for developing test hardware and firmware, performing detailed characterization activities, analysing results, and supporting the development of cutting-edge semiconductor products. Education: BEng Electronic Engineering MEng Electronic Engineering advantageous 2-5 years' practical engineering experience Job Experience & Skills Required: Experience with embedded microprocessor development (Microchip PIC, STM8, STM32). PCB design and layout experience. Programming experience in C and C++. Py

- **Id**: 3783606
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/network-recruitment-junior-electronic-hardware-test-engineer-characterization-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-22T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-22T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 17
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2794
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4496313
- **Name**: Network Recruitment
- **Domain**: networkrecruitmentinternational.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/network-recruitment>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Verilog** — Optional: no
- **VHDL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 17

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T02:07:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.85
- **P active**: 0.467
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 17
- **Expected fill days**: 17
- **Reasons**: seen:17, agency, velocity, win:tail, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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