ASIC Sustaining Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo is seeking a qualified semiconductor test engineering professional to own ATE test programs for RF DBF ASICs, supervise production yield, and collaborate with NPI and OSAT teams to reduce test time and improve quality.

You will analyze ATE data, implement improvements before production, support OSAT equipment and test programs, and drive cost efficiency and scaling across wafer sort and final test processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of semiconductor test engineering experience.
• Experience with ATE platforms such as Teradyne UltraFLEX, Advantest, or similar.
• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting for data analysis.
• Strong analytical skills with experience using data analysis tools (Spotfire, JMP, Excel).
• Experience with RF and/or digital ATE.

Responsibilities

• Partner with NPI and OSAT teams to establish clear work models, ownership, and expectations.
• Own and maintain ATE test programs for RF DBF ASICs at wafer sort and final test.
• Monitor production yield, investigate excursions, and drive root cause analysis.
• Analyze ATE data to identify test program issues, limit escapes, and GR&R guard-banding problems.
• Implement test program improvements and validate fixes before production deployment.
• Support OSAT teams in resolving tester hardware, load board, and test program issues.
• Manage lot holds, disposition decisions, and safe launch activities for new product introduction.
• Monitor production metrics and alert stakeholders to deviations from target.

Skills

Data analysis

Analytical thinking

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

5+ years semicon test experience

Tools

Teradyne UltraFLEX

Advantest

RF bench equipment

Spotfire

JMP

Excel

Job description

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement:

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Relationship Management

• - Partner with NPI and OSAT teams to establish clear work models, ownership, and expectations
• - Build trust-based relationships with OSAT while maintaining urgency and accountability
• - Collaborate with NPI engineers on test issue debugging while prioritizing production needs

Production Operations & Issue Management

• - Own and maintain ATE test programs for RF DBF ASICs at wafer sort (WS) and final test (FT)
• - Monitor production yield, investigate yield excursions, and drive root cause analysis
• - Analyze ATE data to identify test program issues, limit escapes, and GR&R guard-banding problems
• - Correlate ATE measurements with bench data to debug QA fails and identify test escapes
• - Implement test program improvements and validate fixes before production deployment
• - Support OSAT teams in resolving tester hardware, load board, and test program issues
• - Manage lot holds, disposition decisions, and safe launch activities for new product introduction
• - Manage SW/HW consignment to OSAT and respond to daily production issues (yield, QA failures, line downtime, data issues, logistics)

Quality & Yield Optimization

• - Proactively identify quality concerns from OSAT reports and site visits (repetitive failures, abnormal behavior changes
• - Highlight yield improvement opportunities and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• - Monitor production metrics and alert stakeholders to deviations from target

Cost Reduction & Efficiency

• - Support NPI cost reduction campaigns (test time reduction, multi-site testing, hardware simplification)
• - Identify and eliminate cost adders, redundant work, and material waste
• - Improve throughput and resource utilization

Supplier Management & Scaling

• - Define capacity scaling criteria for OSAT partners
• - Evaluate and qualify new OSAT sources using defined metrics, execution plans, and correlation reports

Data & Analytics

• - Leverage internal production monitoring systems to query real-time yield data and consignment status across multiple OSAT site
• - Implement automated alerts using AI tools to notify stakeholders of missed targets

Basic Qualifications:

• - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• - 5+ years of experience in semiconductor test engineering (ATE or bench) and or product engineering.
• - Experience with ATE platforms such as Teradyne UltraFLEX, Advantest, or similar
• - Proficiency in Python or similar scripting language for data analysis
• - Strong analytical skills with experience using data analysis tools (Spotfire, JMP, Excel)
• - Experience with RF and/or digital ATE

Preferred Qualifications:

• - Master's degree or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• - Experience with bench setup automation
• - Experience with RF bench equipment - signal generators, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, power meters
• - Exposure to RF IC fundamentals- mixers, PLLs, amplifiers, filters, beamforming concepts
• - Experience with mm Wave or phased array / DBF / RFFE ASIC testing
• - Experience with wafer sort and final test at OSAT facilities
• - Exposure to RMA debug and failure analysis workflows

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this