Reliability Engineer, IC Qualification & Stress Testing

Cirrus Logic; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cirrus Logic, Edinburgh, UK, is seeking a Reliability Engineer to drive qualification for new mixed-signal CMOS ICs. Define testing requirements and lead plans from concept through mass production.

Collaborate with development teams and customers to ensure tests meet JEDEC and industry standards, focusing on silicon reliability, packaging, and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on reliability engineering experience defining qualification plans.
• Experience with IC reliability qualification per JEDEC or similar.
• Understanding of semiconductor device physics and packaging.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership within the global reliability team.
• Own and lead reliability and qualification plan from concept to mass production.
• Support cross-functional product teams with stress testing during qualification.
• Collaborate with wafer fab and packaging teams on reliability testing.
• Develop new reliability methodologies with internal/external groups.
• Assist customer quality teams to ensure product reliability and quality.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions with design and manufacturing teams.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Customer communication

Data analysis

Semiconductor physics

Education

BEng / BS in Engineering or Physics

Tools

JEDEC standards

Job description

For over four decades, Cirrus Logic has been propelled by the top engineers in mixed-signal processing. Our rockstar team thrives on solving complex challenges with innovative end-user solutionsfor the world’s top consumer brands. Cirrus Logic is also known for its award-winning culture, built on a foundation of inclusion and fairness, meaningful community engagement, and delivering enjoyable employee experiences at every turn. But we couldn’t do it without our extraordinary workforce – and that’s where you come in. Join our team and help us continue to make Cirrus Logic an exceptional place to grow your career!

At Cirrus Logic, mixed-signal engineering drives our company. We develop high-performance, low-power signal processing solutions in audio, voice and haptics, delivering innovative end-user experiences and solving difficult challenges for new generations of mobile and consumer devices. While breaking the innovation barrier, we’ve also built an award-winning company culture, thanks to our extraordinary workforce and our ongoing efforts to champion and promote diversity, as well as our principles of equality and fairness in the workplace. Do you enjoy working alongside the industry’s top engineers and solving sophisticated challenges for the world’s top consumer brands? Join our team and help us continue to make this an exceptional place to work!

We are hiring a Reliability Engineer who will be responsible for driving qualification on our new product developments. If you are passionate about working with internal development engineering teams and external customers to define the requirements for the reliability testing and product qualification of our mixed-signal CMOS Integrated Circuit (IC) products, we want you to apply!

Key Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership within our global reliability engineering team

• Own and lead the new product reliability and qualification plan and risk assessment from the initial concept phase through mass production

• Support our cross-functional product teams to ensure that products are effectively stress tested through our qualification process

• Collaborate with our wafer fab technology team to understand and evaluate silicon reliability with particular focus on our company specific IP

• Work with our assembly and packaging team to evaluate new packaging techniques and component and board level reliability stress testing

• Work with internal and external technical groups to develop new capability and reliability methodologies

• Support the customer quality engineering team to engage customers and ensure that the reliability and quality of the product meets both internal and external standards

• Drive corrective and preventive actions in collaboration with design, process, and manufacturing teams.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• BEng / BS in Engineering or Physics and demonstrated hands on experience in product reliability engineering.

• Experience defining and executing IC reliability qualification plans in accordance with JEDEC and other industry standards e.g. Automotive, Industrial.

• Working knowledge of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reliability requirements

• Ability to specify stress conditions (e.g. HTOL, HAST, TC, UHAST, ESD, Latch-Up), sample sizes, interim read points, and pass/fail criteria for New Product qualifications and requalification activities in accordance with the manufacturing strategy.

• Understanding of semiconductor device physics, IC manufacturing, and packaging technologies.

• Excellent interpersonal and customer communication skills.

• Understanding of quality system requirements.

• Demonstrated analytical skills and the ability to use data-driven approaches to resolve quality and reliability issues.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience of Automotive reliability requirements (e.g. AEC Q100).

• Knowledge and experience of common silicon and package failure mechanisms.

• Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines, and work efficiently as part of a team or independently

• Strong data analysis skills with an analytical approach to assessing and identifying alternative courses of action for resolution of unique and diverse technical problems.

This position is based in our Edinburgh office, UK.

You must be based within commutable distance of the work location listed on the job posting, or willing to relocate prior to beginning employment with Cirrus Logic.

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Export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit candidates who are nationals of certain embargoed countries from working in this position without Cirrus Logic first obtaining an export license. Candidates for this role must be able to access technical data without a requirement for an export license. We are unable to sponsor or obtain export licenses for this role.

At Cirrus Logic, we believe that diversity drives innovation, and we are committed to encouraging an open and collaborative culture where different approaches, ideas, and points of view are respected and valued. We aim to promote a workplace where everyone can contribute irrespective of race, colour, national origin, religion or belief, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or disability.