Join our Automotive OpenGMSL Team as a Staff Design Evaluation Engineer! We are seeking an experienced, self-motivated, and passionate engineer to lead lab characterization and validation of cutting-edge products for Automotive SerDes applications.

OpenGMSL (Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link) is the leading high‑speed in‑vehicle serial link technology in the automotive industry. It enables safe and secure transport of video and data while significantly reducing the cost, weight, and complexity of vehicle cable harnesses. Our extensive portfolio of products is in full production, with millions of vehicles worldwide relying on it daily. OpenGMSL offers cost-effective video and data transport and bridging for various applications, including basic information displays and rearview cameras in mass-market vehicles, safety-critical cameras in autonomous vehicles, and high-resolution touch screens in high-end vehicles. Beyond automotive, OpenGMSL solutions are widely used in industrial and medical systems as well as in growing robotics applications.

The position is based in Beaverton, Oregon.

Responsibilities:

• Design Validation Ownership: Work directly with design engineers and system architects to develop validation plans for new products, covering functional, performance, margin, and robustness requirements.
• Lab Evaluation & Characterization: Execute validation plans through hands‑on laboratory testing, including silicon bring‑up, characterization, debug, and corner analysis of high‑speed SerDes products.
• Test Hardware & Software Development: Design and develop evaluation hardware (boards, fixtures, adapters) and software (scripts, automation frameworks, embedded firmware) required to enable efficient and repeatable testing.
• Debug & Root‑Cause Analysis: Lead or contribute to functional, performance, and system‑level debug of new IP and products, spanning digital, analog, mixed‑signal, firmware, and system interfaces.
• Data Analysis & Reporting: Analyze large and complex data sets, summarize results clearly, and communicate findings and recommendations to cross-functional team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education & Experience: BSEE or equivalent with 5+ years of relevant experience, or MSEE with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Silicon Bring‑Up & Lab Validation Experience: Proven experience executing silicon bring‑up, validation, and characterization of ICs in a laboratory environment.
• Test Hardware Development: Experience designing characterization hardware infrastructure, including evaluation boards, fixtures, and de-embedding structures.
• Test Software & Automation Development: Experience developing software and automation infrastructure for lab validation using scripting or programming languages such as Python, C/C++/C#, or similar.
• Hardware Debug & Measurement Skills: Strong hands‑on capability with lab instrumentation such as high‑speed oscilloscopes, VNAs, BERTs, logic analyzers, signal/spectrum analyzers, and power measurement equipment.
• SerDes & Communications Expertise: Solid understanding of high‑speed digital interfaces, SerDes fundamentals, clocking, jitter, signal integrity, power integrity, and mixed‑signal system behavior.
• Debug & Root‑Cause Analysis: Demonstrated ability to independently debug functional, performance, and system‑level issues and drive issues to root cause with design teams.
• Communication & Collaboration: Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document results, present findings, and work effectively in a cross‑functional design environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SerDes Standards and Protocols: Hands‑on experience with high‑speed interfaces and protocols such SerDes, Ethernet, PCIe, USB, DisplayPort, CSI/DSI, or HDMI.
• Cross‑Site or Multi‑Engineer Coordination: Experience coordinating validation efforts across multiple engineers, labs, or development sites.
• Team Leadership: Experience leading projects or taking on technical ownership within a validation or lab environment.

For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export  licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.  As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.

Job Req Type: Experienced

• Actual wage offered may vary depending on work location, experience, education, training, external market data, internal pay equity, or other bona fide factors.

• This position qualifies for a discretionary performance-based bonus which is based on personal and company factors.

• This position includes medical, vision and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation, holidays, and sick time, and other benefits.