Product Failure Analysis Technician

Altera Corporation

$82K — $113K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate's degree or Technical certification in Electronics, Materials Science, or Engineering, or related field
  • 3+ years of experience in Physical Failure Analysis/Sample Preparation

Responsibilities

  • Identify electrical, thermal, mechanical package, or component failures
  • Conduct physical failure analysis, including delayering and electron microscopy imaging
  • Prepare samples to isolate faults
  • Manage tracking and daily updates of failure analysis cases
  • Collaborate with manufacturing teams for root cause fixes
  • Analyze results to establish root causes and propose remedial actions
  • Participate in automating and improving failure analysis processes and techniques

Benefits

  • Incentive opportunities based on individual and company performance
  • Career development through collaboration with engineering teams
  • Exposure to cutting-edge failure analysis tools and methodologies
  • Focus on continuous learning and improvement across sites
Full Job Description
Job Details:

Job Description:

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced semiconductor Physical Failure Analysis Technician responsible for sample preparation and initial physical analysis on product yield, reliability and customer returns. In this role you will collaborate with engineers driving failure identification in processes and products.

Responsibilities
  • You will be responsible to identify electrical, thermal, mechanical package, or component failures.
  • Conducts physical failure analysis such as delayering, mechanical polishing, electron microscopy imaging of defect for product yield, quality and reliability improvement.
  • Prepares samples to isolate faults.
  • Manages the tracking and updating of failure analysis cases daily; maintains necessary reports, documentation and follow up.
  • Collaborates with manufacturing teams for root cause fixes.
  • Analyzes failure analysis results to establish root cause, proposes actions to remedy and prevents malfunction reoccurrence, ensuring proper corrective action for each failure mode.
  • Participates in automation and improvement of the failure analysis process, tools and methodology, develops new failure analysis techniques and proliferates learning across sites.


Salary Range

The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.

$82,900 - $113,950USD (Hourly equivalent)

We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.

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Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Associate's degree or Technical certification in Electronics, Materials Science, or Engineering, or related field
  • 3+ years of experience in Physical Failure Analysis/Sample Preparation


Job Type:
Regular

Shift:
Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:
San Jose, California, United States

Additional Locations:

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