Quality Failure Analysis Engineer

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THE ROLE :

As a Quality Failure Analysis Engineer in Product Quality Organization, you will play a critical role in failure analysis across cutting-edge semiconductor products. This position is ideal for someone with a strong background in Failure Analysis, Post Silicon Validation, who can apply deep technical insight to identify, isolate, and resolve complex issues in silicon and system-level environments.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including design, validation, FW and manufacturing to drive root cause analysis and corrective actions. Your contributions will directly impact product quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

THE PERSON :

We're looking for a skilled engineer with strong technical and analytical expertise in Component debug, Power Management, PCIe, and Memory Validation. The ideal candidate thrives in both collaborative team settings and independent work, with the ability to define goals, manage development efforts, and deliver high-quality solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Develop and execute DOE's that run targeted tests to reproduce and isolate hard to find failures, Identify and help resolve quality issues.
• Develop Automation and tools to run tests and analyze results / logs.
• Perform debug and drive root cause analysis across silicon and system-level issues
• Collaborate with Customer Quality Engineer (CQE), design, validation teams to identify root causes.
• Further partner with Product Line Quality (PLQ) / Test teams to implement corrective actions and improve test capability at contract manufacturing locations.
• Document findings, Analyze and present Data and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives. Create Failure Analysis reports.
• Provide the next steps on complex FAs for other engineers to unblock them.
• Own end to end FA and Provide detailed reports on the performed FA.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE :

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS :

Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

LOCATION : Austin, TX

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