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ASIC Failure Analysis Engineer
Investigate silicon reliability and field failures across Cisco connectivity and infrastructure products. Build failure analysis processes and coordinate corrective actions with engineering teams.
Description
- Identify root causes of silicon failures found in reliability testing and in the field.
- Recommend corrective actions based on analysis findings.
- Create and implement standard failure analysis processes using a range of analysis equipment.
- Organize logistics and instructions to ensure failure analysis proceeds systematically.
- Record and present analysis findings to management.
- Provide technical guidance on failure analysis questions.
- Build and maintain working relationships with failure analysis service providers and equipment vendors.
- Work with product, test, and design engineers to identify and characterize faults in new technologies.
- Isolate, identify, and characterize faults affecting yield and reliability.
- Coordinate with Product Test, Design, Quality, Assembly, and Foundry Engineering teams.
- Communicate and coordinate with customers and vendors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a related field; a master’s degree is preferred.
- At least 8 years of semiconductor failure analysis experience.
- Experience writing and carrying out failure analysis plans.
- Ability to interpret results from cross-section, X-ray, CSAM, TDR, FIB, SEM, TEM, IR/EMMI/OBIRCH, and other failure analysis techniques.
- Ability to specify hardware and configure setups for dynamic failure analysis using SIL and LSM.
- Experience isolating faults with ATE, Scan/ATPG, and MBIST.
- Knowledge of semiconductor technologies and processes across fabrication, assembly, and advanced packaging.
- Understanding of transistor operation, basic electronics, semiconductor device physics, and device behavior under varied operating conditions.
- Proficiency in ATE-docked dynamic fault isolation using LVP, LVI/SMI, LADA, and TIVA techniques.
- Knowledge of JEDEC IC qualification tests and requirements is beneficial.
- Practical experience directing physical failure analysis with suppliers.
- benefits
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Basic life insurance.
- Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, subject to eligibility.
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year.
- One floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
- One paid day off for an employee’s birthday.
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown.
- Four paid personal wellness days.
- 16 vacation days per full calendar year for non-exempt employees.
- Flexible vacation time for exempt employees, without a set limit and subject to availability and business needs.
- 80 hours of sick time provided on the hire date and each January 1 thereafter.
- Carry forward up to 80 unused sick hours.
- Additional paid time off for critical or emergency family matters.
- Option to take 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year.
- Annual bonuses for eligible non-sales roles.
- Performance-based incentive pay for eligible sales roles.