Semiconductor Test Applications Engineer - Hands-on

Advantest Corporation; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantest Corporation in Singapore seeks a Hands-on Application Engineer responsible for application development, test program development, customer enablement, and technical support across SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test platforms. This role interfaces with testers, automated handlers, and thermal systems.

You will lead system bring-up, develop test flows, optimize configurations, and collaborate with global teams to address customer requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or related practical experience in EE/CS.
• 5+ years of applications engineering or related hands-on experience in semiconductor test.
• Experience with SLT, Burn-In, HPC/AI device test, or Advantest platforms.
• Troubleshooting across hardware, firmware, software, networking, and DUT execution.
• Experience integrating semiconductor test equipment with hardware and thermal systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical liaison for SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test applications.
• Lead hands-on system bring-up, applications development, device integration, characterization, qualification, and production ramp activities.
• Develop and optimize test flows, recipes, configurations, operating parameters, and methodologies for complex semiconductor devices.
• Integrate and debug complete test-cell solutions across tester hardware, handlers, thermal systems, instrumentation, firmware, software, networking, and test programs.
• Support customer evaluations, proofs-of-concepts, demonstrations, benchmarks, workshops, and deployments.
• Translate device, factory, reliability, throughput, and production requirements into test solutions.
• Characterize and improve test time, throughput, yield, repeatability, utilization, availability, power delivery, and thermal performance.
• Develop reusable reference solutions, validation methods, troubleshooting guides, and application documentation.
• Train regional Applications Engineers, Field Service Engineers, partners and customer engineering teams.
• Provide field feedback to Product Management and R&D to influence future platforms and requirements.
• Use automation, scripting, data analytics, and AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development and debugging.

Skills

Phyton

C/C++

C#

Scripting

Data analysis

Windows/Linux environments

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Advantest test platforms

ActivATC/ActivATE360

Job description

Advantest Corporation in Singapore seeks a Hands-on Application Engineer responsible for application development, test program development, customer enablement, and technical support across SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test platforms. This role interfaces with testers, automated handlers, and thermal systems.

You will lead system bring-up, develop test flows, optimize configurations, and collaborate with global teams to address customer requirements.