About the role
AI summarisedThe Principal Product Development Engineer for ATE Test Solutions leads the development and optimization of automated test equipment (ATE) test solutions to meet new product introduction (NPI) milestones in test time, yield, cost, and quality. This role involves close collaboration with design, product, test, quality, reliability, software, and platform teams across global engineering sites. The engineer drives test pattern development, debug, characterization, and silicon bring-up from pre-silicon planning through mass production enablement, while mentoring junior engineers and influencing technical decisions with significant product impact.
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Key Responsibilities
- Accountable to drive test solution/coverage development, optimization to meet business milestone, cost and quality
- ATE Test patterns & test flows/method development, debug, test and characterization
- Pre-Silicon engagement with Design, test solution/methodology scoping, planning & validation
- Post Silicon Bring up of test patterns leading to optimization for mass production enablement
- Characterization execution/analysis and debug of new silicon designs and process technologies
- Optimization of test coverage and flows for increased quality, yield, cost improvement, and test time reduction
- Conduct engineering evaluations and analysis to drive closure of production issues
- Solves complex, novel, and non-recurring problems; initiate significant changes to existing processes/methods and leads development and implementation
- Influences technical decisions that have a significant impact on final product
- Involves collaboration on or assuming the consultative or leadership responsibilities for a specific project or for product development initiatives
- May provide technical supervision or mentoring junior engineers
Requirements
- Proficient understanding of DFT(Design-For-Test) architecture for SOC (System-On-Chip) product
- Strong test development experience
- Silicon characterization/debug working experience
- Experience with various industry standard ATE test platforms
- Data analysis proficiency
- Knowledge or hands-on working experience
- Good understanding of power and performance characterization on ATE
- ATE Test handling/ execution and development experience
- Advantest V93K experience preferred
- Advantest SMT8 experience is a plus
- Software programming and scripting proficiency (C++, Java, Groovy, Perl, Ruby, Python)
- Proficiency in Windows and Linux operating systems
- Experience with HVM (High Volume Manufacturing) is a strong plus
- Strong and effective presentation, written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work with geographically distributed product engineering teams
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills
- 8 years or more of industry experience
- Electrical/Electronics, Computer Engineering, or comparable disciplines