Senior IC Failure Analysis Engineer
Job Description
NVIDIA Networking IC Product Engineering team is looking for an IC failure analysis engineer to support failure analysis activities for yield improvement, product bring-up, customer returns, and product qualification. As a failure analysis engineer, you will own the physical failure analysis (PFA) part, develop work procedures/techniques/recipes, and perform PFA of IC’s using in-house equipment and in external labs. In addition, you will be responsible for all the mechanical aspects of the electrical failure analysis (EFA): sample preparation, mechanical setup, device cooling, and additional challenges to enable debug techniques such as LADA, Emission, OBIRCH, and laser probing.
What you will be doing:
Perform hands-on die level and package level PFA using in-house equipment and equipment available in external labs
Manage tasks in external labs
Work closely with the EFA engineers and mechanical engineers to find solutions to enable EFA of IC’s and consistently learn and improve them
Develop our sample preparation techniques and approaches for EFA
Document work procedures and writing PFA reports
What we need to see:
BSc in Materials/chemical engineering, chemistry, physics, or related fields
4+ years of hands-on experience in PFA, metallography, materials testing lab, or similar
Ability to work and collaborate as part of a team and independently
Self-motivated with the ability to learn alone and review the literature to find solutions to our challenges. On the one hand, collaborate and understand the team and customers’ needs, and on the other hand, develop the best solutions
Insist on high standards for high-quality samples
Good documentation and communication skills
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
Good understanding of VLSI circuit design, and/or device physics, and/or process engineering
Previous experience in mechanical cross-sectioning of PCBA or IC package
Previous experience in different methods of IC delayer
Experience with SEM or FIB for cross-sections and preparing lamella for TEM
Experience in data analysis (JMP or similar)