Senior Physical Failure Analysis Engineer – Semiconductors

Altera; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera, the world’s largest pure-play FPGA solutions provider, is seeking an experienced Physical Failure Analysis Engineer in San Jose, CA. You will identify root causes for yield, reliability, and customer returns, and collaborate with design and process teams to improve devices and packages.

Responsibilities include driving failure analysis using SEM, FIB, EDX, and interpreting data from emission microscopy and probing techniques.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in semiconductor failure analysis.
• 8+ years of experience with Layout & Design tools (Virtuoso, Avalon, SysNav, etc.).
• 8+ years of experience independently implementing failure analysis using die milling/thinning, FIB, SEM, and EDS.
• 8+ years of experience driving investigations to root cause and driving yield/reliability improvements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product/Yield/Reliability Engineers to drive fault isolation during product development, yield improvement and reliability risk assessments
• Support physical failure analysis and root cause determination of semiconductor device failures
• Collaborate with Fault isolation engineers or Independently interpret Emission microscopes, Laser Voltage Probing and OBIRCH data and to define physical failure analysis process
• Independently define, and execute physical failure analysis tools such as SEM, FIB and EDX
• Experienced with layout, schematic and design analysis tools
• Develop reports and communicate findings to the responsible engineers on a regular basis

Skills

Root cause analysis

Failure analysis

Yield improvement

Semiconductor technology

Communication

Education

BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Virtuoso

Avalon

SysNav

Job description

Altera, the world’s largest pure-play FPGA solutions provider, is seeking an experienced Physical Failure Analysis Engineer in San Jose, CA. You will identify root causes for yield, reliability, and customer returns, and collaborate with design and process teams to improve devices and packages.

Responsibilities include driving failure analysis using SEM, FIB, EDX, and interpreting data from emission microscopy and probing techniques.