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Staff Failure Analysis Engineer - Advanced Packaging Technologies joins the Hardware Engineering team to lead the development of failure analysis test interfaces, advanced socketing, and thermal management solutions for Electrical Fault Isolation. This role involves designing and deploying custom sockets, carrier boards, and thermal management systems tailored for high-power devices across mobile, compute, automotive, networking, and AR/VR platforms. The engineer will define hardware specifications, evaluate performance using thermal and electrical analysis tools, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure robust fault isolation for large package sizes and high pin counts. Key technical competencies include expertise in socketing technologies, power delivery challenges, signal integrity for advanced semiconductor packages, and thermal mitigation techniques. This role addresses the challenge of traditional design flows when faced with complex SoCs and emerging packaging trends in modern electronics.
Physical Failure Analysis
SEM
TEM
FIB
IC Fabrication
Advanced Packaging
Cross-sectioning
De-layering
Plasma De-processing
Electron Microscopy
Design of Experiments
Root-cause Analysis
Silicon Architecture
Physical Failure Analysis
SEM
TEM
Focused Ion Beam
FIB
Electron Microscopy
IC Fabrication
Advanced Packaging
De-processing
Cross-sectioning
Design of Experiments
DOE
Circuit Design
Failure Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
Firmware
BIOS
BMC
IPMI
PCIe
Linux
System Architecture
Signal Integrity
Power Delivery
Networking
AI-assisted Engineering
Automation
Hardware Debugging
Circuit Design
Analog
Digital
RF
Schematic Capture
Circuit Simulation
Oscilloscopes
Spectrum Analyzers
Signal Integrity
Power Integrity
System on Chip
Hardware Engineering
Electronic Systems
DSP
Packaging
Python
Rust
Shell Scripting
Linux
CI/CD
Data Pipelines
AI
Machine Learning
EDA Workflows
CAD Navigation Systems
Databases
Version Control
Observability
Automation Frameworks
Workflow Orchestration