Senior ATE Wafer Test Engineer

Description:

• Experienced with scheduling and planning projects with external vendors and customers
• Knowledge of automated test equipment (ATE) platforms, probe card development, software and hardware for wafer level testing.
• The candidate is expected to have hands on experience with NPI test development, WS production yield analysis and yield drop out debug and disposition.
• Familiar & comfortable with high-performance medium volume ASICs, production environment
• Ability to write status reports, schedules and project plans and present results in general meeting formats.
• Capable to contact vendors for project schedule, testing status, booking equipment, and test debugging
• Collection, analysis, correlation and interpretation of data using statistical techniques and industry standard tools is required
• Some experience with scripting and simple programming skills.
• Critical thinking skills to debug and solve problems required
• RF ATE testing experience is a plus

Experience Required:

• BS EE/physics with 5+ years industrial experience
• Analog wafer level IC testing
• Must have experience with probe card cleaning, maintenance and debug
• Must have experience with ATE platform and wafer prober setup and operation
• Must be able to assemble coherent and concise reports summarizing status and next steps
• Must be able to effectively present findings to a cross-functional, collaborative team environment
• Prefer experience with Galaxy or JMP data analysis tools.
• Prefer Advantest 93K expertise including calibration, TL/ISO compliance and ESD compliance
• Prefer expertise with Perl, VB, SQL and Perforce
• Prefer UNIX/Linux experience

Skills Required:

• Proficient interacting with design and application engineers
• Strong debug and analytical skills
• Self-motivated team player
• Strong time and project management skills
• Detail oriented with all aspects of technical work and vendor interactions

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Interface with external vendors for R&D and production testing
• Ensure and correlate test SW and HW to written Test Plan
• Production yield tracking, milestone tracking, problem assessment/disposition and invoice tracking
• Wafer level ATE platform support of production, yield analysis, failure Paretos and yield improvement
• Production logistics including ASIC wafer tracking and travelers
• Supporting engineering releases through pilot runs and production
• Develop, debug and release production methods and procedures to improve efficiency and yield compliant to TL/ISO manufacturing standards