Staff Test Engineer
About the role
A Staff Test Engineer manages and executes within the test development team, owning ATE test solutions from planning to production, including continuous improvement. This role involves collaborating with multiple functions such as Product, Quality, Design, and Validation to ensure the timely release of ATE solutions. Renesas Electronics is rapidly scaling its AI-focused power delivery business, developing products like high-performance digital power VRMs, multiphase controllers, Smart Power Stages (SPS), Vertical Power Stages, Power Towers, and power MOSFETs.
Responsibilities
- Develop best-in-class test programs to support key NPI, quality, and capability initiatives.
- Support qualification, characterization, and correlation of developed products.
- Implement and develop baseline software and hardware solutions for scaling the broader team or organization.
- Complete quality planning, hardware, and software reviews for the test group.
- Coordinate with product engineering and operations to enable seamless production ramp and release.
- Support production yield and customer return activities for quality.
- Serve as a mentor for less experienced engineers.
- Manage third-party relationships and build success with external technical teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience working with Automated Test Systems (ATE), including COHU Diamondx, SPEA DOT800, Advantest V93K, or ETS364.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in ATE test development for analog, digital, and mixed-signal test engineering.
- Experience in programming such as C++, Basic, Perl, Python, and a history of implementing well-designed code templates and libraries.
- Experience testing and collecting data on IC chips or circuits using standard tools like oscilloscopes, multimeters, and spectrum analyzers.
- Proficiency with ATE analog/digital instruments, PCB layout parasitic reduction, and strong debug/troubleshooting experience.
- Hands-on experience debugging analog products, communication protocols, and memory.
- Experience with test hardware and test program development.
- Travel: 0-10%.
About the company
Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its purpose: To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21,000 engineers in more than 30 countries, Renesas works on world-leading technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT applications, shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future. The company’s culture, TAGIE, is grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial.