Hybrid Hardware Engineer

at Cisco

• Job title: Hardware Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

About the role

• Product Test Engineer managing test operations at OSATs for advanced networking silicon at Cisco. Collaborating with product development engineering and ensuring production metrics are met.

Responsibilities

• Manage volume test operations at the OSATs to meet production targets.
• Work with advanced networking silicon and solve hardware and software problems in close partnership with product development engineering and the OSATs.
• Develop test requirements for groundbreaking IP to minimize test overhead both in design and for production.
• Develop custom test solutions spanning high power, large dies, and packages to cost-sensitive products.
• Partner with the PDE and OSAT teams to transfer the ATE and SLT test programs from the Cisco lab to the production environment.
• Be responsible for the prompt resolution of any test issues and drive OSATs to meet metrics for throughput, yield, cycle time, and uptime.
• Ensure that the OSAT roadmap and capacity ramp plans align with the Cisco product ramp and manage/maintain the production test hardware.
• Evaluate test vendors and make recommendations for alternate site bring-ups and complete the qualification activities.
• Provide Engineering support to the Manufacturing Operations team for quarterly planning, ship reviews, and ongoing production optimization.
• Partner closely with the Data and Automation Solutions team to perform statistical data/yield/correlation analysis on large data sets to drive test and yield optimization.

Requirements

• BSEE (or higher) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• 5+ years working in ATE and SLT volume production test environments, preferably on high-end compute/networking devices.
• Ability to debug, analyze, tackle, and root cause manufacturing yield issues and field escapes
• Drive issues to closure with improvement, optimization, and preventive measures.
• Experience with developing, diagnosing, and maintaining hardware.
• Strong fundamentals in Design for Test and manufacturing concepts.
• Strong background in yield data analytics and driving yield improvement.
• Experience with Statistical analysis and correlation.
• Experience using Advantest 93000 tester and SLT Hontech or Chroma handler will be a plus.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities