Senior Silicon Reliability Engineer

What you'll do

• Develop process reliability requirements for new technology nodes with wafer foundries and functional groups.
• Drive foundry qualifications for test vehicles and process reliability improvements before product tape-out.
• Perform wearout reliability assessments and provide Design for Reliability guidance for next-generation products.
• Provide reliability Vmax and aging guardband guidelines to product teams.
• Develop reliability methodologies to optimize product performance and build models for extrinsic failure mechanisms.
• Plan and perform stress tests in collaboration with foundries.
• Assess reliability risks for excursion materials and provide disposition recommendations.

What we're looking for

• PhD or MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related major (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of overall experience in semiconductor reliability.
• Deep understanding of cutting-edge semiconductor process technologies, reliability physics, and acceleration models.
• Familiarity with wearout failure mechanisms (TDDB, BTI, HCI, EM, SM), wafer level reliability tests, and industry standards (JEDEC, AEC).
• Proficiency in reliability statistics and hands-on experience in failure rate calculations for early life, useful life, and wearout periods.
• Good knowledge of semiconductor process defects, root causes, failure analysis, and defect screening methodologies.
• Solid understanding of reliability degradation mechanisms in logic and memory circuits.
• Hands-on skills in reliability data analysis using statistical tools such as JMP.