Process Development Test Engineer

Texas Instruments; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading semiconductor company in Dallas, Texas is seeking an engineer to join their dynamic Advanced Technology Development team. The role involves working on the latest semiconductor technologies, defining test structures, and ensuring robust characterization solutions for emerging technologies. The ideal candidate will have experience in semiconductor characterization and the ability to innovate new test capabilities. This position promises a challenging environment with opportunities for growth and development.

Qualifications

• Experience in semiconductor technology and characterization.
• Ability to design test structures and innovative test capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Ensure robust characterization solutions for emerging technologies.
• Define test structures and architect test solutions for accurate data.
• Align FoM specifications to characterization data with design teams.
• Drive best practices for optimal test design and characterization.
• Characterize components across various parameters.
• Build infrastructure for efficient characterization.

Skills

Characterization solutions

Test structures design

Collaboration with design teams

Best practices in test methodologies

Job description

About the job

Here’s your chance to work as part of a dynamic and challenging engineering team on the latest semiconductor technology within the Advanced Technology Development team. The ATD team creates world‑class manufacturing technologies by:

Developing new process platforms with step‑function improvements in performance and cost

Extending roadmap process technologies with new features, models and reduced costs

Creating innovative, breakthrough technologies for new markets and new products

Responsibilities

• Partnering with technologists to ensure robust characterization solutions are available for emerging and pathfinding technologies with novel components
• Defining test structures, architecting test solutions, and innovating new test capabilities to enable accurate and robust characterization data for technology assessment and SPICE Models across a broad range of technologies and component types
• Partnering with design teams to align critical FoM specifications to characterization data and SPICE model simulations
• Driving best practices & methodologies for optimal test structure design and characterization methods to ensure high‑performance technology entitlement
• Characterizing all component types across a wide range of process, bias, temperature, and frequency
• Building infrastructure to enable efficient characterization to support rapid learning cycle technology development