$70,304 - $143,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This position is part of the Operation Product Engineering team within the FPGA BU in San Jose, CA, supporting manufacturing issues, product yield enhancement, and failure analysis for FPGA/SoC products.
What you'll do
- Perform failure analysis and yield enhancement activities on FPGA/SoC products. - Characterize and evaluate FPGA/SoC products, validating on-chip components including micro-processors, SERDES, DDR, eNVM, SRAM, charge pumps, PLLs, and Analog I/Os. - Complete pre- and post-silicon debug and verification. - Support manufacturing issues, yield analysis, yield improvement activities, and qualification activities. - Support electrical parameter assessment/analysis and engineering silicon reliability experiments. - Collaborate with Design, Technology Development, Customer Support, Product/Test Engineering, and Quality teams across the FPGA Business Unit.
What you'll need
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering. - 2.5+ years of relevant experience in the semiconductor industry. - Solid understanding of digital circuits, CMOS logic, VLSI design, and semiconductor physics. - Design skills in Verilog / VHDL and experience with EDA tools (such as Synopsys and Cadence Virtuoso). - Experience analyzing yield and electrical test data. - Experience working in a laboratory environment using electrical test and debug equipment.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of FPGA or CPLDs. - Experience performing failure analysis and root cause investigations. - Knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing and product qualification processes.
Skills: Failure Analysis, Yield Enhancement, FPGA/SoC products, Pre/post silicon debug, product qualification