Senior Failure Analysis Engineer

About This Role

Join NVIDIA's Silicon Failure Analysis Lab to perform and coordinate electrical and physical failure analysis, supporting product development, design debug, and quality assurance for semiconductor ICs, boards, and systems.

Responsibilities

• Perform and coordinate both Electrical and Physical Failure Analysis efforts to assist in product development, design debug, yield improvement, final test, quality on various NVIDIA products.
• Apply advanced EFA principles and operate EFA tools such as Curve Tracer, Emission-based analytical tools, Laser Scanning Microscopy, and imaging tools (3D Xray, CSAM, etc.) for fault isolation and analysis.
• Communicate effectively EFA fault isolation findings and provide timely assistance to PFA teams (in-house or foundry and assembly partners) to root cause the problems.
• Collaborate closely with Product Engineering and Test Engineering teams to verify and duplicate failures modes of failures that are reported on ATE, SLT, and appropriate test setups.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve production test program quality and efficiency.
• Actively participate in multi-functional teams to efficiently debug product failures and implement optimal solutions.
• Write and maintain scripts and tools for the test engineering groups to improve overall efficiency and effectiveness.

Requirements

• Master's degree or higher in electronics or related engineering fields
• 8-10 years of experience in Failure Analysis or related fields
• Proficiency in basic electrical engineering and testing, transistor device physics, silicon device analysis, sophisticated CMOS manufacturing/processes, circuit analysis, and automated test equipment (ATE).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in electronics or related engineering fields (or equivalent experience).
• 8-10 years of proven experience in Failure Analysis or related fields.

Nice to Have

• Ability to understand and/or operate tools for silicon inspection, cross-section, delayering, material analysis (Scanning Electron Microscope, Focused Ion Beam, Nanoprobing, etc.)
• Proficiency in sophisticated backside analysis techniques and use of innovative analytical instruments
• Experience in analog circuit design, PLLs, and system-level testing/validation
• Familiarity with Linux operating systems/shell scripting
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Python/Perl and/or C/C++

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits