Senior/Engineer, Equipment & Hardware (JR 11979)

STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd is seeking a qualified engineer to sustain production by managing equipment maintenance and testing activities across OSAT partners. The role emphasizes hands-on troubleshooting, tool management, and collaboration with internal product divisions.

The candidate will support NPI transitions for mass production equipment and drive continuous improvement in equipment availability and reliability, with travel to subcon plants as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in automation or electronics or relevant discipline.
• 2 to 5 years experience in semiconductor industry with equipment maintenance or testing engineering in a manufacturing facility.
• Experience in testing equipment (ATE/prober/handler/burn-in oven etc.) and hardware tooling (probe card, load board, change kit, burn-in board, etc.) maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Know-how in semiconductor manufacturing process flow, especially in final test & finishing process.
• Hands-on and analytical person able to articulate problems, analysis and solution.

Responsibilities

• Assess equipment and hardware availability to sustain production demand.
• Coordinate internal and external resources for equipment breakdown repair and recovery at subcon plants.
• Provide technical support on equipment maintenance, troubleshooting and spare replenishment activities.
• Participate in equipment benchmarking, budgeting, delivery and installation, and qualification buy-off.
• Contribute to NPI qualification of MP equipment and tooling for testing across subcon OSAT.

Skills

Equipment maintenance

Testing engineering

Troubleshooting

Project management

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor degree in automation or electronics

Tools

ATE equipment

Prober

Handler

Burn-in oven

Probe card

Load board

Change kit

Burn-in board

Job description

Responsibilities

• Assess equipment & hardware availability to sustain production demand requirement.
• Work closely with ST internal product division and subcon manufacturing team on production sustaining at subcon plant (in case of serious equipment failures, coordinate internal and external resource for equipment breakdown repair and recovery).
• Technical support on equipment maintenance/troubleshooting/skill training/spare replenishment/etc. activities and resolve consignment equipment and tooling (including EWS probe card & FT load board and Burn-in board) related issues at subcon (OSAT) production.
• Participates equipment benchmark selection and budgeting, delivery & installation, qualification acceptance buy-off, upgrading/evolution follow up.
• Equipment inventory and transfer movement management to sustain supply chain environment, Fixed equipment asset reconciliation and decommission & disposition management at GOBM Organization
• Contribute New Product Introduction (NPI) qualification to Mass Production (MP) equipment and tooling for testing across all subcon (OSAT).
• Project management of deploys continuity improvement policy and solution at subcons. including liaison with internal stakeholders and external equipment supplier /subcons on equipment utilization/efficiency/service/quality/cost/etc.
• Leading equipment related technical change and managed equipment related production/quality risk.
• Attends professional seminar and work with internal equipment key program/team in order to benchmark and share best known methods and participates corporate worldwide users meeting.
• Support manager on equipment management policy implement and continuity improvement action execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in automation or electronic qualification, or relevant discipline.
• 2 to 5 years experience in semiconductor industry with equipment maintenance or testing engineering in a manufacturing facility, preferably in Electrical Wafer Sorting (EWS), Final Testing and Burn in testing of back-endoperations.
• Experience in testing equipment (ATE/prober/handler/burn-in oven etc.) and hardware tooling (probe card, load board, change kit, burn-in board, etc.) maintenance and troubleshooting, testing methodologies and test programs, systems integration.
• Know-how in semiconductor manufacturing process flow, especially in final test & finishing process.
• Hands-on and analytical person who is able to articulate problems, analysis and solution
• Must possess a strong team spirit and initiative, be self-motivated, and have a high sense of responsibility and urgency with the ability to meet deadlines.
• This position requires travel to subcon and may require travel on short notice.