System Integration & Validation Team Lead
Yokne'am Illit, Israel
Posted on Nov 12, 2026
What You Will Be Doing
- Lead and mentor a team of System Integration & Validation engineers (4 to 6 engineers).
- Own the team's technical direction, execution plans, priorities, and delivery commitments.
- Build, maintain, and track detailed validation work plans aligned with product development milestones.
- Drive technical reviews, problem solving, and root-cause investigations.
- Develop the team's technical capabilities, methodologies, and engineering best practices.
- Own the end-to-end product integration and validation lifecycle, from system requirements through product release.
- Collaborate closely with System Engineering, HW/RF, FPGA, SW, Mechanical and Product Management teams throughout the development lifecycle.
- Work with System Engineering to ensure system requirements are clear, testable, traceable, and adequately validated.
- Translate system and product requirements into comprehensive verification and validation requirements, test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
- Define the architecture of product test environments and validation infrastructure.
- Lead the design and implementation of automated test frameworks, test equipment, simulators, instrumentation, and data collection infrastructure.
- Provide objective product maturity and validation-status assessments before design reviews and release decisions.
Requirements
- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering\Science, or a related engineering discipline.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in system integration, system validation, verification, embedded systems, or multidisciplinary product development.
- 4+ years of technical leadership or team leadership experience.
- Proven experience integrating and validating complex multidisciplinary systems combining HW, RF and SW.
- Experience with high-performance computing, FPGA/SoC-based systems, PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, SerDes, high-speed interfaces, or storage technologies.
- Strong hands-on experience with system bring-up, debugging, failure analysis, and root-cause investigation.
- Experience developing system-level verification plans, test specifications, test cases, and validation methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with automated testing and scripting, preferably Python and/or similar automation frameworks.
- Strong understanding of embedded systems, Linux-based platforms, networking, and HW/SW interfaces.
- Experience working with lab equipment and debugging tools such as oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers, power supplies, and other test instrumentation.
- Excellent system-level problem-solving skills and ability to lead debugging across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Strong technical leader with a hands-on, system-oriented mindset.
- Excellent debugging and analytical capabilities.
- Ability to distinguish between symptoms and root causes in complex multidisciplinary systems.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Advantages
- Experience with CI/CD-based automated validation and large regression environments.
- Familiarity with environmental qualification, reliability testing, EMC/EMI, thermal/vacuum, vibration, or other qualification activities.
- Experience developing and validating products for space, aerospace, defense, automotive, telecom, or other high-reliability environments.