Senior Test Engineer

Help shape the future of Trusted Physical AI by leading technical innovation in advanced test, AI-assisted engineering, and automation for NXP’s next generation of intelligent edge products.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for advanced product test development, including ATE test solutions, silicon debug and characterization, test optimization, automation, and AI-enabled engineering tools. Lead cross-functional test activities from initial silicon through productization while developing new methods and tools that improve engineering productivity, quality, and time to market.

Job Position: PRODUCT/TEST ENGINEERING (NPI/NTI) NPI Test Engineering

Role Summary:

• Lead AI-enabled test engineering from pre-silicon through productization, including test strategy, testability, simulation, ATE development, silicon characterization, debug, and optimization.
• Develop innovative AI-enabled tools, automation, and test solutions to accelerate engineering development, improve productivity, and reduce test time and cost.
• Provide cross-functional technical leadership to solve complex design, silicon, and test challenges and ensure product quality and manufacturing readiness.

Job Responsibility:

• Lead pre-silicon test development, including test strategy, design-for-testability reviews, simulation, and test coverage definition for complex SoCs and mixed-signal IP.
• Develop, debug, and optimize ATE test programs for digital, analog, mixed-signal, RF, and memory IP.
• Lead first-silicon bring-up, characterization, and debug, correlating silicon behavior with design specifications, simulation, and bench/ATE results.
• Define and validate production test hardware, including load boards, probe cards, device interfaces, and ATE instrumentation requirements.
• Partner with Design, DFT, Verification, and Validation teams to identify testability and coverage gaps and develop robust production-test solutions.
• Develop AI-enabled engineering tools, automation, and workflows for test development, silicon debug, data analysis, knowledge reuse, and engineering productivity.
• Develop engineering software and automation using Python, C/C++, Java, C#, scripting, and data-analysis tools to accelerate test development and reduce manual engineering effort.
• Analyze characterization, yield, and production test data to identify silicon issues, improve test coverage, optimize limits, and drive yield and quality improvements.
• Drive test-time and cost reduction through test optimization, parallel test, automation, methodology improvements, and reuse of scalable test solutions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring, driving complex technical issues to resolution with global Product Engineering, Test Engineering, Design, DFT, Validation, Quality, and Manufacturing teams.

Job Qualification:

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in semiconductor test, product engineering, silicon validation, or a related discipline.
• Experience developing and debugging ATE test programs for complex SoC, digital, analog, mixed-signal, or RF products.
• Experience with pre-silicon test development, simulation, testability, DFT, silicon bring-up, characterization, and debug.
• Strong programming and automation skills using Python, C/C++, or similar languages; desire to apply AI/GenAI tools to engineering workflows is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to technically lead complex engineering projects, solve cross-functional problems, and drive issues from concept through production.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor devices, circuits, test methodologies, data analysis, yield, and production test optimization.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across Design, DFT, Verification, Validation, Product Engineering, and Manufacturing teams.

NXP Introduction:

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