Semiconductor Reliability Engineer

Organization & Role

The Teradyne Hardware Engineering team is looking for a highly motivated, energetic, technically driven Semiconductor Reliability Engineer to focus on the development of ASIC and FPGA device reliability for products within the Semiconductor Test division. Semiconductor design occurs in a dynamic and challenging multi-site development environment. This individual will report directly to the Reliability Engineering Manager for product development at the Semiconductor Test Division.   This is a hybrid role based out of our Agoura Hills location.

Responsibilities

• Work with the design team to apply Design for Reliability (DfR) concepts in ASIC development.
• Develop mixed signal ASIC reliability qualification test plans including stress test planning and acceptance test criteria requirements for ASIC design qualification.
• Work with the ASIC engineering team to evaluate the impact of failure mechanisms influencing ASIC design and risk mitigation.
• Ability to drive component failure analysis to root cause during ASIC design phase.
• Provide sustaining reliability support for semiconductor devices and drive reliability-related issues to resolution.
• Apply statistical tools like Weibull++ and Alta to evaluate component reliability and accelerated life testing analysis.
• Lead Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for both design & process.
• Develop and validate a model for estimating mixed signal ASIC yield due to process, design and parametric shift.

Basic Qualifications & Skills

• Experience in semiconductor fabrication process.
• Working knowledge of solid-state physics.
• Good understanding of failure mechanisms in semiconductor devices
• Hands on experience with stress test methods for semiconductors
• Experience with failure analysis to root cause.
• Experience with Design FMEA
• Experience in environmental stress testing
• Experience with statistical methods for accelerated life testing and component evaluation
• Working knowledge of test equipment and instrumentation (i.e., oscilloscopes, DMM’s, Spectrum analyzers and generators, etc) and a demonstrated ability to set-up tests and write test reports.
• Computer literate and proficient in Microsoft Office suite, Statistical Software packages, reliability analysis software (Weibull++, BlockSim and Alta preferred)
• Good verbal, written and persuasion skills
• High energy, self-driven individual with good presentation and training skills

Education

• MS or PhD in EE or equivalent with 5 years or more experience in process engineering, solid state physics and Reliability Engineering.
• Experience in the Automated Test Equipment design (ATE) is a plus.
• Job requires 10% travel.

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