ATE RF Test Engineer RF Semiconductor Validation & Test Development

- Location: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
- Work Mode: Onsite
- Experience: 3 10 Years
- Employment Type: Full time

Role Overview

We are seeking an ATE RF Test Engineer with experience in RF semiconductor validation, characterization, and automated test development. The role involves developing RF ATE test programs, supporting silicon bring-up, optimizing production test solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with RF ATE platforms, RF measurements, production test development, and wireless communication technologies.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop RF ATE test programs from scratch for Wafer Sort (WS) and Final Test (FT).
- Design, debug, and optimize RF functional, parametric, characterization, and production test solutions.
- Perform RF transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) validation and characterization.
- Execute RF measurements including Output Power, Gain, EVM, ACPR, Harmonics, Spurious Emissions, Phase Noise, Frequency Error, Receiver Sensitivity, and BER.
- Develop RF calibration routines to improve measurement accuracy across ATE platforms.
- Analyze Wafer Sort and Final Test data to optimize yield, test limits, and test time.
- Develop and debug RF load boards, RF probe cards, calibration boards, and RF interface hardware.
- Perform ATE-to-bench correlation and validate RF measurement accuracy.
- Develop automation scripts for RF test execution, engineering analysis, and reporting.
- Support NPI, Engineering Validation (EV), Product Qualification, Characterization, Reliability, and Production Release activities.
- Work closely with RF Design, Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Reliability, Applications, Foundry,



and Customer Engineering teams.
- Prepare technical documentation and contribute to continuous improvement of RF production test methodologies.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in:
- Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE)
- Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE)
- Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering (EIE)
- Instrumentation Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Embedded Systems
- VLSI Design
- Microelectronics
- Semiconductor Technology
- Or a related engineering discipline

- 3 10 years of experience in RF semiconductor validation, characterization, or ATE RF test development.
- Experience supporting both engineering validation and production test environments.

Technical Skills ATE Platforms
- Advantest V93000 RF
- Teradyne UltraFLEX RF
- Teradyne Magnum RF
- NI Semiconductor Test System (NI STS RF)

RF Test Hardware
- Advantest Wave Scale RF (WSRF)
- Teradyne UltraWave
- Teradyne Flex RF Instrumentation
- NI PXI Vector Signal Transceiver (VST)
- NI PXI RF Signal Generator
- NI PXI RF Signal Analyzer
- RF Load Boards
- RF Probe Cards
- RF Calibration Boards
- RF Shielded Fixtures
- RF Switch Matrix

RF Measurements
- Output Power
- Gain
- Error Vector Magnitude (EVM)
- ACPR
- Harmonics
- Spurious Emissions
- Noise Figure (NF)
- Receiver Sensitivity
- Blocking
- Intermodulation Distortion (IMD)
- Frequency Error
- Phase Noise
- Bit Error Rate (BER)

RF Technologies
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi
- GPS / GNSS
- NFC
- UWB
- Zigbee
- LoRa
- Cellular (4G/5G)

RF Engineering
- RF Calibration
- S-Parameters
- RF Signal Integrity
- Impedance Matching
- Silicon Characterization
- Production Test Optimization
- Yield Improvement
- ATE-to-Bench Correlation

Programming & Software
- Python
- C
- C++
- Java
- VB
- SmarTest
- IG-XL
- Eagle Vision

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📌 ATE RF Test Engineer – RF Semiconductor Validation & Test Development (Coimbatore)
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