Senior VLSI Test & Yield Engineer — Taiwan

Cerebras; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems in Taiwan seeks a senior VLSI product and test engineer with 10+ years of semiconductor testing, failure analysis and yield enhancement. You will drive the test strategy for future generations of the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine in Taiwan, covering AI processors, high-speed I/O and memory.

Your work includes ATE test development, manufacturing-data analysis, wafer disposition, defect characterization, failure isolation and yield improvement across massively parallel compute

Qualifications

• 10+ years of semiconductor product or test-engineering experience.
• Strong experience in test development, silicon debug, test optimization and yield improvement.
• Experience testing large parallel processors, GPUs, CPUs or networking ASICs.
• Expert-level experience with the Advantest V93000 platform; Teradyne experience is a plus.
• Experience specifying, designing, developing and debugging load boards and probe cards for advanced production-test and DFT requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize production test programs for wafer-scale AI processors.
• Drive high-volume manufacturing testing in partnership with foundries and OSATs.
• Implement and optimize design-for-test strategies, including scan, BIST, ATPG and functional testing.
• Analyze ATE, Shmoo, parametric and defect data to improve yield and fault tolerance.
• Develop failure-analysis and fault-isolation methods for defective cores, tiles and other blocks.
• Build efficient wafer-level test flows for massively parallel compute and die-to-die interconnects.
• Partner with DFT, architecture, design, performance, software and manufacturing teams.
• Optimize voltage-frequency operating limits, current, thermal behavior, power delivery and parallel die-testing capabilities.
• Support wafer and lot disposition decisions throughout high-volume manufacturing.

Skills

Semiconductor test engineering

Test development

Silicon debug

Yield improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Advantest V93000

Teradyne

Load boards

Probe cards

Job description

Cerebras Systems in Taiwan seeks a senior VLSI product and test engineer with 10+ years of semiconductor testing, failure analysis and yield enhancement. You will drive the test strategy for future generations of the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine in Taiwan, covering AI processors, high-speed I/O and memory.

Your work includes ATE test development, manufacturing-data analysis, wafer disposition, defect characterization, failure isolation and yield improvement across massively parallel compute