Hardware Engineering Manager

Seeking a Hardware Engineering Manager with team leadership experience and deep, hands-on expertise in VI ATE instrument design. In this role, you will drive innovative solutions in the Semiconductor Test Group at Cohu, leading a team defining next-generation VI instruments that go beyond what is available in the market today.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
This role is an exciting opportunity to lead the architecture and design of VI instrumentation for semiconductor ATE. You will manage a team of hardware engineers while remaining technically hands-on, owning large, multi-disciplinary projects from concept through release to manufacturing alongside firmware, software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers. This includes:
Precision, high voltage, and high current VI instrumentation
Custom ASIC-enabled instrument architectures
Advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration, such as SiP, MCM, and chiplets
Work activities involve:
Building, managing, and mentoring a team of hardware engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career growth
Leading project scope, schedule, budget, risk, and technical direction
Translating product marketing and customer requirements into instrument architecture, and deciding where custom ASIC, advanced packaging, or discrete design best meets performance, power, density, and cost goals
Defining ASIC, SiP, or MCM requirements at the system level, and selecting and managing external partners through milestones, deliverable reviews, and verification that parts meet requirements
Leading analog design from simulation and prototyping through layout, bring-up, and characterization of instruments and partner-built silicon
Defining theory of operation and test strategy, and guiding firmware and software development
Driving difficult design and customer issues to root cause and corrective action, and shaping future instrument roadmaps with marketing and applications
Required Qualifications:
BSEE required; MSEE preferred
Minimum 10 years of experience designing analog hardware, with a record of taking complex instruments from concept to production
Expert knowledge of VI instrumentation design, such as device power supplies or source-measure units, including force/sense architectures and accuracy and stability across wide voltage and current ranges
Strong knowledge of feedback control for digitally controlled analog loops, including compensation, stability analysis, and transient response with varying and capacitive loads
Expert knowledge of precision analog design at IC and discrete level, including data converters, power converters, and high voltage and high current design with thermal, safety, and reliability considerations
Experience defining requirements for custom ASICs or advanced packages and managing external design partners through development to production
Proficiency with SPICE and schematic capture/PCB tools such as Cadence Allegro, and with signal integrity, power integrity, and low-noise design practices
Extensive hands-on laboratory test, debug, and characterization experience
Proven ability to lead large projects on schedule, guide cross-functional teams and external partners, and communicate complex design concepts clearly
Desired Qualifications:
Experience with ATE instruments, such as device power supplies or parametric measurement
Experience implementing digital control and DSP for control loops, such as digital compensators and filters in an FPGA, ASIC, or DSP
Experience with metrology and calibration
Experience managing or technically leading engineering teams
Compensation: The estimated base pay range for this position is $150,000-$185,000 per year, depending on qualifications, experience, education, and other job-related factors. This range represents Cohu’s good faith estimate of what it reasonably expects to pay for this role upon hire. This role may also be eligible for other compensation programs as determined by company policy.
Featured benefits
Medical, dental & vision insurance

Skills
Linux, Prototyping