Senior Engineer I-Test

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Job Description:

Microchip Technology Inc. has a Senior Engineer I-Test opening based in our Austin, TX office. The Timing and Communication Product Group (TCG) is seeking a self-motivated test engineer to develop test programs and assist in test development for product releases of SyncE/1588 timing, Clock Distribution and Frequency Synthesizers. The successful candidate will participate in all aspects of product and test development, from initial specification through volume manufacturing.

Responsibilities:

• Generating test programs for timing-based products

• Define and develop high speed low noise ATE test boards

• Review new product specifications, advise design teams on product manufacturability for timing-based products

• Work with applications, marketing, product and reliability groups, for the release of new products, monitoring goals and schedules

• Establish manufacturing guard-bands based on repeatability and characterization data

• Support customer sampling and offshore volume production ramps

• Support ongoing subcontractor test activity

• Product cost reduction, yield improvement, and test capacity maximization

• Analysis of Customer returned devices and supporting Customer requirements

• Characterize and evaluate new products

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science with 5+ years of experience developing ATE test programs for integrated circuits

• Extensive knowledge of semiconductors, statistics, analog and digital circuit theory and circuit analysis, and semiconductor IC testing

• Must have experience with ATE systems

• Self-motivated and able to work independently

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Ability to excel in a multi-disciplinary team environment across multiple locations

• Strong analytical, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• ATE programming using Advantest Smartest and Cohu Unison programming environments

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