Altera
Product Physical Failure Analysis Engineer
San Jose, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure ‑ play FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise.
- We are seeking an experienced semiconductor Physical Failure Analysis Engineer responsible for root cause identification on yield, reliability and customer returns.
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
- Develop reports and communicate findings to the responsible engineers on a regular basis
- As an independent company, we move faster, invest deeper, and partner more closely-empowering our teams to drive breakthrough innovation and shape the future of the FPGA industry.
Requirements
- 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 driving investigations to root cause and driving yield/reliability improvements
- Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- 8+ years of experience independently implementing failure analysis using die milling/thinning, Focused Ion Beam milling for layer-by-layer deprocessing of silicon die, Scanning Electron Microscopy, and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy
Nice to have
- Understanding of FPGA architecture
- Experience with using Teradyne Ultraflex tester
- Experience in semiconductor packaging failure analysis.
Skills
- About Altera
- Independently define, and execute physical failure analysis tools such as SEM, FIB and EDX
- Experienced with layout, schematic and design analysis tools
- Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc.
Compensation
- The pay range below is for Bay Area California only.
- Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc.
- We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
- $149,100 - $215,925 USD
Company info
- About the Role We are seeking an experienced semiconductor Physical Failure Analysis Engineer responsible for root cause identification on yield, reliability and customer returns.
- We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
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