TEST AND VALIDATION MGR II ENGINEERING

About the role

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. Job Overview Lead the Test & Validation engineering team responsible for characterization, design validation, qualification, interoperability, and production readiness of next-generation high-speed active copper cable products, Active Electrical Cables (AEC) and Active Copper Cables (ACC). This role combines people leadership, laboratory/test strategy, automation, and hands-on technical leadership for retimer/redriver-based products operating at 112G, 224G, and future signaling rates.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop Test & Validation engineers and technicians; establish priorities, technical ownership, performance expectations, and development plans.
• Own validation strategy and DVT execution, translating product, customer, IEEE, MSA, CMIS, and internal requirements into measurable test coverage, pass/fail criteria, and release evidence.
• Lead high-speed electrical validation including BER/PRBS testing, PAM4/6 link characterization, eye/jitter measurements, transmitter/receiver performance, margin testing, voltage/current/power measurements, thermal characterization, and voltage/temperature corner testing.
• Drive laboratory automation using Python and reusable test frameworks; integrate BERTs, oscilloscopes, VNAs, power supplies, environmental chambers, I2C/CDB interfaces, switching systems, and monitoring equipment.
• Establish automated data collection, analysis, reporting, and trend monitoring to improve repeatability, test coverage, execution time, and engineering decision-making.
• Lead complex system-level debugging involving hardware, retimers/redrivers, signal integrity, power integrity, firmware, CMIS, thermal behavior, cable assemblies, host systems, and customer platforms.
• Ensure failures are documented, reproduced, root-caused, corrected, and revalidated; drive disciplined issue closure rather than pass-by-retest behavior.
• Partner with Hardware, SI, PI, Firmware, Regression/Interoperability, Mechanical/Thermal, Manufacturing, Product Engineering, and customer-facing teams throughout product development.
• Support customer issue reproduction, technical reviews, qualification activities, and clear communication of validation status, technical risks, and unresolved issues.
• Maintain laboratory capability, equipment planning, test methodology, documentation, and engineering standards needed to support multiple concurrent development programs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or closely related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years, or 6+ years with