Hardware Validation Engineer (Voltage Regulator & Power/Performance Testing)

Quick Facts

• Role: Hardware Validation Engineer (Voltage Regulator & Power/Performance Testing)

• Focus: Electrical hardware validation, voltage regulator characterization, and power/thermal/performance testing

Description

Work hands-on in a hardware engineering lab to validate Xbox computing hardware through electrical validation, voltage regulator characterization, and power/thermal/performance testing. Use advanced test equipment to build repeatable measurement setups and run Python-automated data acquisition, then analyze results and report evidence-based conclusions. Own validation activities including functional and stress testing, troubleshooting failures, and improving test methods and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute voltage regulator characterization and validation tests against engineering requirements

• Measure regulator performance: efficiency, line/load regulation, ripple/noise, load transients, and startup/shutdown behavior

• Build reliable lab test setups, select instruments/probing techniques, and test across relevant voltages, loads, and operating conditions

• Develop and maintain Python scripts for equipment control, automated data acquisition, and repeatable test execution

• Perform power measurements and collect software-based power, thermal, and performance data across workloads

• Correlate bench measurements with software telemetry (frequency, utilization, workload performance, temperature)

• Analyze trends and tradeoffs; evaluate measurement repeatability

• Investigate unexpected results/failures with engineers, reproduce issues, and retest fixes

• Execute functional, stress, and system hardware validation tests and track root causes

• Rigorously analyze test data and distinguish hardware findings from measurement artifacts

• Create reproducible engineering reports with plots, tables, test configurations, procedures, results, limitations, and next steps

• Independently plan and prioritize test activities; promptly escalate blockers or unexpected results

• Identify opportunities to improve test automation, measurement processes, and validation efficiency

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on electrical engineering or hardware laboratory experience

• Experience testing hardware circuits, electrical validation, and voltage regulator characterization

• Proficiency with oscilloscopes and passive/differential/current probing

• Experience with electronic loads, digital multimeters (DMMs), and benchtop power supplies

• Strong understanding of safe laboratory setup and electrical measurement practices

• Practical Python scripting for lab equipment control and automated data acquisition

• Experience with hands-on power measurement and software tools for power/thermal/performance data collection and validation

• Understanding of voltage regulator circuit theory and electrical engineering fundamentals

• Ability to analyze electrical measurements, evaluate data quality, and identify measurement artifacts

• Strong technical reporting skills (clear plots/reports that others can reproduce)

• Ability to independently execute test plans and investigate complex hardware issues

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering preferred (Physics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, Firmware Engineering, or related considered)

• LCR meter and device profiling tool experience is beneficial

• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, life)

• Employer-matched 401(k) plan

• Paid time off and flexible paid holiday benefit