Senior Engineer, Failure Analysis Engineering
Core
Conduct and supervise Failure Analysis (FA) for production and new product samples, driving yield and quality improvements through defect characterization and root cause analysis.
Role type
Senior IC failure analysis engineer
Builds
Production storage systems and AI infrastructure components
Domain
Semiconductor manufacturing / Data storage
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Failure analysis methodology, defect characterization, statistical analysis, experiment design, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Defect unification initiatives, FA database management, simulation of defect mechanisms
Technologies
Optical Microscopy (OM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Zygo, OSA, SEM-EDX, FIB-SEM, Raman spectroscopy, ESCA, TOF-SIMS, Spotfire
Responsibilities
Conduct and supervise FA activities for production and NPI samples, manage and mentor technicians for media FA analysis, coordinate second-level analysis with analytical lab teams, generate comprehensive FA findings and quarterly defect pareto reports, collaborate with Yield/Defect Engineering and Process Teams to drive yield improvements, participate in global FA initiatives and maintain defect library, carry out simulations and experiments to understand defect formation mechanisms
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
