Validation Engineer

Job Title

Validation Engineer

Role Summary

Join the Analog Power Products team in Dallas to validate analog power integrated circuits. The role will be placed into product engineering, test engineering, or validation engineering depending on team needs and focuses on device validation, test automation, and release support.

Experience Level

Mid-level — typically requires 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in product, test, or validation roles.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities involve laboratory validation, automation, and collaboration with design teams to ensure devices meet specifications.

• Develop and execute validation plans across temperature, voltage, and load conditions.
• Design and build bench test setups, including hardware fixtures and software automation.
• Characterize device performance and identify deviations from specifications.
• Identify, document, and drive resolution of silicon issues via structured debugging and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with IC design engineers to validate functionality and resolve performance gaps.
• Develop scripts and tools to automate data collection, measurement, and analysis.
• Support product release by executing reliability and qualification testing per industry standards.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience for immediate contribution; preferred items follow.

• 5+ years experience in product engineering, test engineering, validation engineering, hardware validation, or a related technical role.
• Hands-on experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, source-measure units, signal generators, and thermal chambers.
• Experience building bench setups, PCB bring-up, and bench characterization across voltage, temperature, and load conditions.
• Programming skills for test automation (Python, C/C++, MATLAB, or LabVIEW).
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills; ability to document and drive issue resolution.
• Nice-to-have: knowledge of analog circuitry (op-amps, DC/DC converters, LDOs, data converters) and analog power topologies (buck, boost, LDO, battery management).
• Nice-to-have: basic understanding of schematics and layouts, strong verbal and written communication, and ability to collaborate across functions.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (as stated in the posting).

About the Company

Company: Texas Instruments

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, USA

Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, and sells analog and embedded processing chips for various markets including industrial, automotive, and personal electronics. The company's innovations aim to make electronics more affordable and reliable, fostering advancements in technology through each generation of semiconductors.