COE Application Engineer

Advantest America; Lake Forest (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantest America seeks an hands-on COE Application Engineer to drive development, integration, and enablement across SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test platforms. You will work with testers, handling, thermal systems, firmware, software, and production test cells to deliver scalable test solutions.

The role requires translating device and production requirements into robust test flows, operating parameters, and methodologies, while supporting customer evaluations and deployments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test applications.
• Lead hands-on system bring-up, application development, device integration, characterization, qualification, and production ramp activities.
• Develop and optimize test flows, recipes, configurations, operating parameters, and application 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, proof‑of‑concepts, demonstrations, benchmarks, technical workshops, and production deployments.
• Work directly with customers to translate device, factory, reliability, throughput, electrical, thermal, and production requirements into test solutions.
• Characterize and improve test time, throughput, yield, repeatability, utilization, availability, power delivery, and thermal performance.
• Drive structured root-cause analysis for complex system-level issues and coordinate resolution across Applications, Systems, HW, SW, FW, Test Program, and R&D teams.
• Develop reusable COE reference solutions, validation methods, troubleshooting guides, best practices, and application documentation.
• Train regional Applications Engineers, Field Service Engineers, partners, and customer engineering teams.
• Provide field and customer feedback to Product Management and R&D to influence future platform, software, firmware, and system requirements.
• Use automation, scripting, data analytics, and AI‑assisted engineering tools to accelerate application development, debug, and characterization.
• All other duties as assigned.

Job description

COE Application Engineer - SLT, Burn-In, HPC & AI

Position Overview

Hands-on COE (Center of Expertise) Application Engineer responsible for application development, system integration, customer enablement, and technical support across SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test platforms. The role works directly across semiconductor testers, automated handlers, thermal systems, instrumentation, test programs, firmware, software, and production test-cell environments to develop, validate, deploy, and scale complete test solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test applications.
• Lead hands-on system bring-up, application development, device integration, characterization, qualification, and production ramp activities.
• Develop and optimize test flows, recipes, configurations, operating parameters, and application 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, proof‑of‑concepts, demonstrations, benchmarks, technical workshops, and production deployments.
• Work directly with customers to translate device, factory, reliability, throughput, electrical, thermal, and production requirements into test solutions.
• Characterize and improve test time, throughput, yield, repeatability, utilization, availability, power delivery, and thermal performance.
• Drive structured root-cause analysis for complex system-level issues and coordinate resolution across Applications, Systems, HW, SW, FW, Test Program, and R&D teams.
• Develop reusable COE reference solutions, validation methods, troubleshooting guides, best practices, and application documentation.
• Train regional Applications Engineers, Field Service Engineers, partners, and customer engineering teams.
• Provide field and customer feedback to Product Management and R&D to influence future platform, software, firmware, and system requirements.
• Use automation, scripting, data analytics, and AI‑assisted engineering tools to accelerate application development, debug, and characterization.
• All other duties as assigned.