Staff Reliability Engineer — Semiconductor NPI/NTI Leadership

Samsung Semiconductor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 131,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance and 401(k) matching

Onsite café(s) and workout facilities

Paid maternity and paternity leave

PTO + 2 personal holidays and 10 fixed

Wellness incentives and MORE

Job summary

Samsung Austin Semiconductor seeks a Staff Reliability Engineer to oversee semiconductor reliability for NTI and NPI. You will collaborate across teams, Korea HQ, customers, and the Fab to ensure smooth transitions to mass production, driving all phases of reliability engineering for advanced CMOS nodes.

Reporting to Engineering Manager, you will lead reliability evaluations, experiments, and data analysis, leveraging BEOL/WLR degradation mechanisms to improve yields and device lifetimes.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Engineering (Electrical or Materials) preferred.
• 10+ years of related experience in semiconductor reliability engineering.
• Hands-on experience in Reliability Degradation Mechanisms in BEOL WLR (TDDB/EM/SM/TC) and FEOL WLR is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to direct a team for reliability improvement activities.
• Identify, plan, and execute reliability evaluations for NTI/NPI, technology qualification, process changes and abnormal events.
• Manage solutions to integration problems across Fab, PIE, Device, Product Test to improve reliability.
• Design, execute, and analyze designed experiments to improve semiconductor fabrication processes.
• Utilize lessons learned to improve reliability margin; define new process integration for new technology nodes.
• Utilize statistical tools and reliability models to extract lifetime from time to fail data.
• Represent Samsung technology leadership by authoring papers for symposiums & journals and leadership roles at external conferences.
• Navigate both the industrial and academic landscape to be a knowledge center of device integration and technology development for reliability.
• Plus for strong understanding of Semiconductor BEOL Reliability Degradation Mechanisms.

Skills

MS/PhD in Engineering

10+ years semiconductor reliability

BEOL/WLR reliability

Education

MS/PhD in Engineering (Electrical or Materials)

Job description

Samsung Austin Semiconductor seeks a Staff Reliability Engineer to oversee semiconductor reliability for NTI and NPI. You will collaborate across teams, Korea HQ, customers, and the Fab to ensure smooth transitions to mass production, driving all phases of reliability engineering for advanced CMOS nodes.

Reporting to Engineering Manager, you will lead reliability evaluations, experiments, and data analysis, leveraging BEOL/WLR degradation mechanisms to improve yields and device lifetimes.