Hybrid Test Engineer, ATE – Contract

at d-Matrix

• Job title: Test Engineer, ATE – Contract
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $100 - $125 per hour
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Santa Clara, United States

About the role

• ATE Test Engineer developing and overseeing SoC test strategy and solutions for silicon product testing at d-Matrix. Interacting with manufacturing partners and owning products through production ramp.

Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee SoC test strategy
• Interact with manufacturing partners
• Define and implement ATE programs
• Own the product from design through high volume production ramp
• Identify, drive test cost reduction, improve both CP and FT yield
• Enhance CP program to minimize high FT yield fallout bins

Requirements

• Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. At minimum, a Bachelor’s in EE is required, and a Master’s is preferred.
• 8-year experience releasing complex SoC/silicon products to high volume manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of high-speed protocols like PCIe, LPDDRx, HBM, etc.
• Hands-on experience with high-speed SoC test program/hardware development on Advantest 93k test platform.
• Collaboration with design DFT team to define test strategy, create and own test plan.
• Familiar with high-speed and high power load board design techniques
• Proven track record of implementing ATE patterns to optimize tester resources and minimize ATE test time while maintaining product quality.
• Strong knowledge and development of DFT techniques implemented in silicon that provide maximum defect and parametric device coverage – AC/DC SCAN, MBIST, DBIst, DSerDes, DDR, D2D, DIMC and other functional tests.
• Strong knowledge of lot genealogy from 2DiD bar code down to ECID in eFuse for device serial number, chiplet Id and die information.
• Expertise in production test of high speed SerDes operating at 16Gbps and higher.
• Skilled in ATE programming, silicon/ATE bring-up, bench-ATE correlation and debug.
• Experience with lab equipment including protocol analyzers and oscilloscopes.
• Experience with data conversion between STDF file format into csv file format using scripts including extracting ECID reside with eFuse block.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages such as C/C++, Python.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/401k
• Diverse package of benefits