Shift Inspection Engineer - Visual QC & AI Defect Reduction

ao-inc; Sugar Land (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

ao-inc seeks a Shift Inspection Engineer to oversee our compound semiconductor laser wafer and chip visual inspection in a cleanroom environment. The role supports expanding the semi-automated defect detection system and trains production staff across product families.

Key duties include developing visual inspection recipes for new products, monitoring yield, refining inspection algorithms, and maintaining tools to maximize uptime and quality on the production line.

Responsibilities

• Learn current inspection system and implement improvement for defect inspection overkill and escape
• Development of visual inspection recipes for new products
• Perform sampling review of chip photos from daily production and continuously collect escaped and overkilled photos for AI model building and retraining to reduce misdetection rate
• Review work orders rejected by Outgoing Quality Control department
• Troubleshooting for work orders with inspection issues
• Ensure production line meet uptime, cycle time and quality metrics, have the sense of urgency on resolution of production issues
• Inspection yield report analysis on a weekly basis

Job description

ao-inc seeks a Shift Inspection Engineer to oversee our compound semiconductor laser wafer and chip visual inspection in a cleanroom environment. The role supports expanding the semi-automated defect detection system and trains production staff across product families.

Key duties include developing visual inspection recipes for new products, monitoring yield, refining inspection algorithms, and maintaining tools to maximize uptime and quality on the production line.