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Job Description
As a product engineer in Global Failure Analysis, you will be responsible for analyzing failures on leading edge memory, characterizing failures, and determining root cause and corrective action. You will work with a cross functional team of engineers across design, test, memory health, device and system teams. Responsibilities include:
Perform NAND memory characterization and failure analysis using automated test equipment (testers) and lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and temperature control systems.Create, maintain, and optimize characterization test flows using C programming and tester hardware.Automate data collection and processing by creating scripts in Python/Perl.Prepare formal characterization and memory failure analysis reports.Participate in meetings regarding test improvements and failure analysis.Designing, debug and implement electrical test strategies to bring out semiconductor defects in our 3D NAND memory packages during mass manufacturing.Providing corrective actions for customer failures by suggesting ideas for production flow improvements while maintaining the DPPM level and meeting product requirements during various life cycles.Performing in-depth 3D NAND electrical Failure Analysis to narrow down the root-cause and making sure that similar failures can be caught on the upcoming generations of NANDDefining product specific NAND Flash Memory test flows including stress and screen tests to deliver very high quality memory components for embedded storage flash products.Interact with the design, device and other cross functional teams to solve problems and overcome any major issues that might be gating the product shipments.Administering and determining system requirements and cost to determine project feasibility;
o Reducing capacity as well as introducing innovative ways to reduce costs in order to remain competitive.
Working to reduce the test times for qualification flows thereby helping to meet the stringent customer deadlines while constantly improving the quality of the test flow.Driving and addressing any issues that shows up during the post-silicon coverage tests and providing a suitable solution to meet the tight customer specifications.Working with the hardware vendors in defining and developing boards for the ATE platforms and making sure that these boards are optimized for best performance with limited signal and power losses.Enabling Production environment on test platforms to improve the flexibility of Failure Analysis and help reduce the project TATs significantly.Improving group working efficiency by initiation and implementation of automations using various complex softwares and tools.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree/Master’s degree in engineering with 5+ years exp
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