Senior Test Engineer

Industry: Power Semiconductors

Reference: BH-165

Location: Reading, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive

Employment type: Permanent

Head Of Desk Glane Raquidan

Phone +44 (0) 203 9 606393

Email [email protected]

Job description

Senior Test Engineer (Reading, UK)

Job Description

  Company profile We’re looking for an experienced Senior Test Engineer to be part of one of the big companies in power semiconductor. With a strong foundation in RF integration, the company’s product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare.

Ultimately, you will ensure your area of responsibility meets and exceeds the expectations of our business objectives and contributes to our company’s success in the long run.

Key Responsibilities And Activities Include
  • Reports to the Director of Operations of the power management business unit

  • Work closely with design, marketing, quality, and procurement

  • Management of Test & Characterization and Product/Sustaining Engineering team

  • Production ATE program development and maintenance supporting various test platforms

  • Responsible for all test engineering, and characterization necessary to bring power semiconductors through qualification to mass production

  • Support the engineering team during the entire product life cycle from product definition through product release to end-of-life

  • Responsible for all functions associated with Production Test/Product Engineering (TE/PE), Characterization, Reliability and Sustaining Engineering

  • Responsible in interface primarily with OSATs, Independent Test Houses, and internal engineering teams

  • Responsible in characterization of all new power management ICs

  • Product reliability using rigorous monitoring of process flows and detailed analysis from test and characterization data to pursue continuous quality improvement in pursuit of a zero-defect policy

  • Sustaining Engineering initiatives responsible for ongoing improvements to production yield and reductions in cost

  • On time (or early) release of new silicon

Education And Experience Requirement
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline, Master’s or PhD preferred

  • 8+ years of experience in Test and Characterization program development, with emphasis on analog and mixed signal ICs, preferably power management ICs and power modules

  • Technical expert in test and characterization for power products

  • Demonstrated management of TE, PE and Characterization teams necessary for bringing products from NPI through to mass production

  • Hands-on test program development skills

  • Strong understanding of all aspects of semiconductor testing from wafer probe through to final product test including various product packaging options such as WLCSP, FCLGA, CuP, and LGA based fully integrated power management modules using advanced 3D packaging technologies

  • Experience in bringing semiconductors through a full suite of characterization and formal qualification tests including ESD, Latch-up, HTOL, HAST, MSL etc

  • Demonstrated experience and understanding of developing test plans suited to various product flows to reduce test cost and streamline production throughput

  • Familiar with all current procedures for detailed Failure Analysis

  • Experience with Teradyne Flex, Eagle and Cohu ASL1000 platforms

  • Established relationships with major fabs and OSATs relevant to analog power semiconductors, and local outsourced test partners for characterization and equal processes

Features And Benefits
  • Operates in a professional office environment

  • Open, respectful and fun company culture

  • Have a real impact on the company’s growth and evolution

  • Routinely uses standard office equipment

  • Highly competitive salary package

Personality
  • Critical Thinker

  • Working with Ambiguity

  • Displaying Technical Expertise

  • Driving for Results

  • Making Accurate Judgements and Decisions

  For interested applicants, kindly send your cv at [email protected]