Product Development Engineer

Altera Corporation; Penang; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera in Penang, Malaysia, is seeking a Product Development Engineer to drive testability and manufacturability of integrated circuits from feasibility through production ramp. You will work with design, process development, fab, assembly, and manufacturing to enable efficient production testing and robust yield.

The role requires strong analytical and debugging skills, plus excellent teamwork. Responsibilities include developing test flows, evaluating new designs on ATE, and collaborating to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Experience in semiconductor test development, product engineering, or manufacturing test environments.
• Familiarity with ATE platforms and test program development.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive testability and manufacturability of ICs from feasibility to production ramp.
• Develop, validate test flows and methodologies for new products.
• Collaborate with process development, fab, factory, and manufacturing groups for post-silicon ramp.
• Perform ATE device characterization and yield analysis to define datasheet specs.
• Drive DFx/DFD/DFM features to enable efficient production testing.

Skills

Analytical skills

Debugging

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering

Tools

ATE platforms

Test program development

Job description

Product Development EngineerAltera uses cookies and similar technologies on this website to improve your online experience, to analyze site usage and to show tailored advertising to you. For more information on Altera's use of cookies and similar technologies, visit our Cookie Notice.# Careers## Product Development EngineerApply: Penang 15, Penang, Malaysia: Full time: Posted Today: R03274# **Job Details:**### ## **Job Description:*** Drives and develops testability and manufacturability of integrated circuits from the component feasibility stage through production ramp.* Contributes to design, development, and validation of testability circuits, test flows, and methodologies for new products through evaluation, development, and debug of complex test methods.* Interfaces with process development, fab, factory, assembly, quality and reliability, and manufacturing groups to enable post-silicon HVM ramp.* Evaluates new designs on automatic test equipment (ATE) and works with the design, DFx, and product development teams to debug functionality and performance issues to root cause.* Performs ATE device characterization, utilizes that data to define datasheet specifications and performs yield analysis.* Collaborates with designers to drive design for test/debug/manufacturing (DFT/DFD/DFM) features enabling efficient production testing of new products.* Develops and debugs complex software programs to convert design validation vectors and drive complex test equipment.* Creates and tests validation and production test hardware solutions.* Tests, validates, modifies, and redesigns circuits to guarantee component margin to specification.* Analyzes and evaluates component specification versus performance to ensure optimal match of component requirements with production equipment capability with specific emphasis on yield analysis and bin split capability.* Ensures manufacturability over process and product design through thorough analysis of process and spec corners and works with design to resolve yield issues before manufacturing ramp.* Drives test time reduction through analysis of fallout data versus test time for various IPs to balance and drive overall product cost optimizations.* Analyzes early customer returns with emphasis on driving test hole closure activities.* Creates and applies concepts for optimizing component production relative to both quality and cost constraints.* Leads and drives manufacturing readiness from fab, assembly, and test factory to support engineering sample and customer sample generation (ES milestones), wafer start planning, product qual execution strategy and capacity analysis, and assembly and test site certification activities.* Works with fab, assembly, and test factory partners and planners to support production ramp.* May also manage execution of new product introductions in the fab, fab process targeting, product/process optimizations, and participate in factory task forces to bring product perspective and respond to product issues.* Optimizes product supply through data analysis of post-silicon binsplit, die level cherry pick (DLCP), and optimize sort/test content and yield downstream through data analysis.### ## **Qualifications:**## **Qualifications:*** Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.* Experience in semiconductor test development, product engineering, or manufacturing test environments.* Familiarity with ATE platforms and test program development.* Strong analytical and debugging skills.* Excellent communication and teamwork skills.### ## **Job Type:**Regular### ## **Shift:**Shift 1 (Malaysia)### ## **Primary Location:**Penang 15, Penang, Malaysia### ## **Additional Locations:**### ## **Posting Statement:**All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.**About Altera**Altera: Accelerating InnovatorsAltera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.