Semiconductor Failure Analysis Technician

191 Altera Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 114,203,000 - 156,978,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera seeks an experienced Physical Failure Analysis Technician to perform sample preparation and initial physical analysis on product yield, reliability and customer returns. You will work with engineers to identify failure modes and drive root-cause actions across processes and products.

Responsibilities include delayering, mechanical polishing, electron microscopy imaging, creating reports, and collaborating with manufacturing teams to implement corrective actions and improve quality and

Qualifications

• Experience performing physical failure analysis on semiconductor devices.
• Ability to identify electrical, thermal, mechanical failure modes.
• Experience documenting findings and root cause proposals.

Responsibilities

• Identify electrical, thermal, mechanical failures in devices.
• Perform delayering and electron microscopy imaging to analyze defects.
• Prepare samples, track failure analysis cases, and document results.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to implement corrective actions.

Skills

Failure analysis

Root cause analysis

Sample preparation

Tools

Electron microscopy

Delayering

Mechanical polishing

Job description

Altera seeks an experienced Physical Failure Analysis Technician to perform sample preparation and initial physical analysis on product yield, reliability and customer returns. You will work with engineers to identify failure modes and drive root-cause actions across processes and products.

Responsibilities include delayering, mechanical polishing, electron microscopy imaging, creating reports, and collaborating with manufacturing teams to implement corrective actions and improve quality and