Senior Application Engineering Manager — HPC/AI Test

Advantest Corporation; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Bonus

401(k) Plan

Medical/Dental/Vision

Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible Time Off

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Advantest America Inc. in San Jose seeks an Application Engineering Manager to lead a customer-facing systems and application engineering team supporting HPC, AI, hyperscaler, and advanced digital semiconductor test on the V93000 platform.

You will drive engagements from requirements through production ramp, and mentor engineers to optimize test strategy and yield while partnering with customers and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor test, ATE applications, product engineering, test development, or systems engineering.
• 3+ years of leadership, people management, or technical team leadership experience.
• Experience with ATE platforms, preferably Advantest V93000 and SmarTest; comparable ATE experience may be considered.
• Experience supporting advanced digital, SoC, AI accelerator, CPU/GPU, networking, or data-center semiconductor devices.
• Experience with wafer sort, final test, high-volume manufacturing ramp, yield improvement, test time reduction, and production issue resolution.
• Strong customer-facing communication, escalation management, project execution, and cross-functional leadership skills.

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.

Skills

Leadership

Customer-facing

Cross-functional

Project execution

Communication

ATE expertise

Semiconductor test

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Advantest V93000

SmarTest

pattern conversion

Job description

Advantest America Inc. in San Jose seeks an Application Engineering Manager to lead a customer-facing systems and application engineering team supporting HPC, AI, hyperscaler, and advanced digital semiconductor test on the V93000 platform.

You will drive engagements from requirements through production ramp, and mentor engineers to optimize test strategy and yield while partnering with customers and internal teams.