GPU boards Failure Analysis Engineer - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 16 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves performing board-level failure analysis on customer and factory failures of GPU Accelerators to reproduce reported failures and isolate the cause of failure. Your contributions will directly impact product quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction.
What you'll do
- Support internal and external requests to troubleshoot PCBA-level AMD GPU product failures.
- Develop and execute DOEs (design of experiments) that run targeted tests to reproduce and isolate hard-to-find failures.
- Develop automation and tools to run tests and analyze results/logs.
- Perform triage and communicate with cross-functional teams to converge on failure reproduction efforts and root cause identification.
- Document all findings into the FA (failure analysis) database and create complete failure analysis reports.
- Implement ongoing continuous improvements of failure analysis processes and techniques and create procedures.
What you'll need
- Deep expertise in GPU architecture, including debug, validation, and stress/functional test development.
- Skilled in using lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, custom test tools) for hardware validation.
- Strong background in PCBA diagnostics, failure analysis, and debug techniques.
- Proficient in Python, shell scripting, and working across Windows and Linux environments.
- Solid understanding of firmware, drivers, and hardware interactions, with the ability to tune firmware.
- Extensive experience in hardware verification and system integration.
- Familiarity with PCBA manufacturing processes and IPC-A-610 quality standards.
- Hands-on experience assembling, installing, and configuring computer systems and servers.
- Able to read schematics, interpret datasheets, identify components, and perform soldering/rework for debug.
- Proficient in MS Excel for data analysis and reporting.
- Knowledge of high-speed digital design, memory interfaces (HBM, GDDR), PCIe, and display outputs (DP, HDMI).
Nice to have
- Experience with GPU data center infrastructure and AI/ML technologies.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 51-day median for Failure Analysis Engineering roles.
Failure Analysis Engineering · Failure Analysis
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Open roles in category
189
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$107k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (189 roles · 39 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 9 | 189 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 47 | 9915 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 84 d | 51 d (+33 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $107k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 31 open roles · median 73 d
- GlobalFoundries · 14 open roles · median 24 d
- Lam Research · 14 open roles · median 40 d
- Infineon Technologies · 13 open roles · median 45 d
- Intel Corporation · 12 open roles · median 27 d
- STMicroelectronics · 9 open roles · median 52 d
How we counted: 189 open Failure Analysis Engineering (Failure Analysis) roles from 39 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.