Digital Systems Engineer

Job Description

In this role, you will serve as a trusted technical leader at the intersection of customer roadmaps, semiconductor device trends, system architecture, and product execution, translating complex technical requirements into differentiated instrumentation and platform solutions. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise, systems-level judgment, and the ability to lead through influence by aligning teams, driving architecture decisions, and guiding technical strategy across hardware, software, firmware, and test methodology.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Roadmap: Lead the definition of long-term technical direction for select digital product lines on Teradyne’s flagship UltraFLEXplus tester by analyzing semiconductor, packaging, interface, and test technology trends.
• Architecture Leadership: Drive critical architecture trade-offs and technical recommendations for complex digital instrumentation, balancing performance, scalability, signal integrity, cost, risk, schedule, and long-term extensibility.
• Industry and Technology Leadership: Represent Teradyne in external conferences, standards discussions, and industry forums to gather technical VOC, benchmark emerging technologies, and identify opportunities for differentiated test capability.
• Strategic Technical Influence: Build credibility with customers, device architects, product leaders, and internal engineering teams as a senior technical leader who identifies inflection points where Teradyne can create competitive advantage.

Skills and Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including significant experience as a senior individual contributor, system architect, principal engineer, or technical lead for complex hardware/software systems.
• Proven ability to lead technical direction across engineering teams, customers, product leaders, and executives through clear reasoning, strong technical judgment, and effective communication.
• Strong understanding of digital DFT, semiconductor test strategies, ATE architectures, and production test requirements.
• Deep digital hardware/software systems knowledge, with demonstrated ownership of architecture-level trade-offs across performance, signal integrity, timing, scalability, diagnostics, cost, manufacturability, and product extensibility.
• Demonstrated curiosity and fluency in emerging semiconductor technologies such as high-speed serial interfaces, advanced memory, chiplets, advanced packaging, and AI/HPC device trends.
• Track record of leading ambiguous, cross-disciplinary technical problem solving and mentoring engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and architecture decision-making.
• Strong teamwork skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10-20% of the time.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].