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Failure Analysis Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA
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PythonMATLABData AnalysisSEMElectrical EngineeringMicroscopyLeadership
About the role
- As a Failure Analysis Engineer at Avicena, you will be the technical detective behind our microLED and photodetector device programs - isolating, characterizing, and root-causing failures across devices, arrays, and integrated modules.
Responsibilities
- Root-cause analysis: Lead end-to-end failure analysis of GaN microLEDs, photodetector arrays, and integrated interconnect modules, from failure isolation through physical root cause and corrective action.
- FA techniques: Plan and perform electrical, optical, and physical FA including EL/PL imaging, SIMS, EMMI/photoemission, OBIRCH/thermal, curve tracing, and fault localization on single devices and dense arrays.
- Failure characterization: Build failure signatures and defect libraries; distinguish process-induced, design-induced, and stress-induced failure modes.
- Reporting: Produce clear, rigorous FA reports and present root-cause conclusions to engineering and leadership; support customer and foundry-facing analyses.
- Build failure signatures and defect libraries; distinguish process-induced, design-induced, and stress-induced failure modes.
- Produce clear, rigorous FA reports and present root-cause conclusions to engineering and leadership; support customer and foundry-facing analyses.
- Your findings will directly steer design, process, and reliability decisions for the LightBundle™ platform, closing the loop between what fails in the lab and how we build it better.
Requirements
- Analysis skills: Proficiency in data analysis and scripting (e.g., Python, MATLAB) and strong technical communication.
Nice to have
- GaN microLEDs: Prior experience with GaN-based microLED or LED/laser failure analysis is strongly preferred but not required.
- Experience with FA on high-density emitter or detector arrays.
- Experience supporting reliability qualification and correlating FA to stress-test results.
- Background in optical/photonic module or interconnect FA.
- Avicena is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
Skills
- Proficiency in data analysis and scripting (e.g., Python, MATLAB) and strong technical communication.
- Avicena is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a development center in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Benefits
- Avicena offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits, along with the opportunity to make foundational contributions to a category-defining technology.
Equal opportunity
- Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.
- We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States
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