• Define and execute validation and characterization plans for custom camera ICs, from first silicon bring-up through post-mass-production release.
• Validate silicon against specification across process, voltage, and temperature corners, and correlate results to simulation and datasheet claims.
• Deliberately push ICs beyond their specified limits through supply transients, unexpected power sequences, and abuse cases.
• Verify register maps, trim settings, calibration flows, and power-up/power-down behavior, including unintended or undocumented states.
• Build the validation hardware needed to test the device: evaluation boards, test fixtures, and in-system debug setups.
• Develop Python and/or MATLAB frameworks for automated test, data collection, and analysis, so that validation is repeatable and scalable.
• Review vendor designs, datasheets, and implementations against camera system requirements to find issues early.
• Root-cause failures, document them clearly, and drive fixes with vendors through to closure.
• Support integration of the silicon into camera modules and products, working with firmware, mechanical, optical, and systems teams.

• Strong understanding of analog and mixed-signal fundamentals: amplifiers, data converters, feedback and stability, power delivery, and noise.
• Hands-on lab experience testing, characterizing, and debugging analog or mixed-signal circuits and ICs.
• Experience finding bugs or failure modes in hardware through stress, margin, or out-of-spec testing.
• Experience with Python and/or MATLAB for lab automation or data analysis.
• Working knowledge of schematic and PCB design tools such as Altium Designer, Allegro, or KiCAD, sufficient to build evaluation boards and test fixtures.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work directly with silicon vendors and cross-functional partners.
• Proficiency in the English language is required.

• MS or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• Post-silicon validation or bring-up experience on custom analog/mixed-signal ICs, including identifying defects not caught by the supplier.
• Experience developing validation test plans and test coverage for ICs, including PVT corner characterization.
• Experience with serial interfaces and register-level device control (I2C, SPI, MIPI), and with building automated test frameworks around them.
• Experience with actuator drivers (VCM, OIS), LED flash drivers, camera PMICs, or power converters.
• Circuit simulation with SPICE-based tools, including correlation of simulation to measurement.
• Familiarity with C/C++ for embedded systems or RTL for FPGA platforms.
• Experience with small form-factor, flex, or rigid-flex designs.

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