Job Description:Microchip Technology Inc. has a Senior Engineer I-Test opening based in our Austin, TX office. The Timing and Communication Product Group (TCG) is seeking a self-motivated test engineer to develop test programs and assist in test development for product releases of SyncE/1588 timing, Clock Distribution and Frequency Synthesizers. The successful candidate will participate in all aspects of product and test development, from initial specification through volume manufacturing.
Responsibilities:- Generating test programs for timing-based products
- Define and develop high speed low noise ATE test boards
- Review new product specifications, advise design teams on product manufacturability for timing-based products
- Work with applications, marketing, product and reliability groups, for the release of new products, monitoring goals and schedules
- Establish manufacturing guard-bands based on repeatability and characterization data
- Support customer sampling and offshore volume production ramps
- Support ongoing subcontractor test activity
- Product cost reduction, yield improvement, and test capacity maximization
- Analysis of Customer returned devices and supporting Customer requirements
- Characterize and evaluate new products
Requirements/Qualifications:- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science with 5+ years of experience developing ATE test programs for integrated circuits
- Extensive knowledge of semiconductors, statistics, analog and digital circuit theory and circuit analysis, and semiconductor IC testing
- Must have experience with ATE systems
- Self-motivated and able to work independently
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to excel in a multi-disciplinary team environment across multiple locations
- Strong analytical, and problem-solving skills
Preferred Qualifications:- ATE programming using Advantest Smartest and Cohu Unison programming environments
Travel Time:0% - 25%
Physical Attributes:Bending at Waist, Feeling, Hearing, Lifting, Pushing, Seeing, Talking, Works Around Others
Physical Requirements:Standing 10%, Walking 10%, Sitting 80%, Inside 100%, M-F 8AM - 5PM
