Application Engineering Manager

Advantest America; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantest America is seeking an Application Engineering Manager in San Jose, California. This role involves leading a team focused on high-performance compute, AI, and advanced digital semiconductor testing on the V93000 platform. The ideal candidate will drive customer success through technical engagement and innovative solutions.

Key responsibilities include developing testing strategies, guiding application engineers, and partnering with clients to optimize production processes. Strong ATE expertise and leadership experience required for this customer-facing role.

Qualifications

• Experience in application engineering or systems engineering.
• Ability to work with complex test strategies and methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of application and systems engineers.
• Drive customer engagements from requirements to production release.
• Guide test strategy and program development.
• Partner with customers to improve production quality and yield.
• Support advanced test needs including multisite test and high-speed interfaces.
• Lead technical escalations and root-cause analysis.
• Promote automation and data-driven engineering workflows.

Skills

Strong ATE expertise

Leadership experience

Customer engagement skills

Knowledge of SoC, AI accelerator, CPU/GPU

Job description

We are seeking an Application Engineering Manager to lead a customer-facing systems and application engineering team supporting high-performance compute (HPC), AI, hyperscaler, and advanced digital semiconductor test applications on the Advantest V93000 platform. This role supports customers from technical engagement and test strategy through wafer sort, final test, and high-volume manufacturing ramp. The ideal candidate brings strong ATE expertise, leadership experience, and the ability to drive customer success for complex SoC, AI accelerator, CPU/GPU, networking, and data-center devices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of application and systems engineers supporting V93000 test solutions for HPC, AI, hyperscaler, and advanced digital customers.
• Drive customer engagements from requirements definition, benchmarks, and bring-up through production release, wafer sort, final test, and HVM ramp.
• Guide test strategy, program development, debug, characterization, validation, correlation, and optimization using V93000 and SmarTest workflows.
• Partner with customers and internal teams to improve time-to-volume, production quality, yield, test time, and cost of test.
• Support advanced test needs including multisite test, high-speed digital interfaces, scan/DFT, memory interfaces, power, thermal, and production hardware readiness.
• Lead technical escalations, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional resolution of production ramp or customer support issues.
• Promote automation, AI-enabled engineering workflows, data-driven debug, and knowledge capture to improve engineering productivity and customer outcomes.