Staff Test (Semiconductors) Quality - Allen, TX, United States
Originally posted 14 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This Staff Test Quality Engineer role is a senior, hands-on technical position within the Corporate Quality organization responsible for strengthening semiconductor test strategy, test coverage, and manufacturing quality controls across wafer sort, final test, and production release flows.
What you'll do
- Establish and maintain corporate standards for Design for Test (DFT), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), test coverage, and guardbanding.
- Review and audit analog, digital, mixed-signal, wafer sort, and final test programs for datasheet compliance, test coverage effectiveness, and limit integrity.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for test-related customer issues, 8D investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action plans.
- Lead cross-functional problem solving to identify systemic test weaknesses, develop scalable solutions, and drive adoption.
- Evaluate product-specific test strategies, including analog and digital test methodologies, hardware configurations, and fault coverage.
- Improve outgoing defect levels by analyzing customer returns, low-yield lots, and recurring failure modes to develop improved screens and test coverage enhancements.
What you'll need
- More than 10 years of hands-on semiconductor test engineering experience supporting wafer sort, final test, production release, sustaining product engineering, or manufacturing quality.
- Strong knowledge of Automotive APQP, xFMEAs, and Safe Launch methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with 8D problem solving, FTAs, and Risk Analysis/Assessments.
- Strong hands-on proficiency in analog and digital test development, test programming, vector pattern generation and analysis, probe and final test data analysis, and debug.
- Experience with ATE platforms such as Eagle, Teradyne/Flex, LTX, Advantest, Verigy, or equivalent production test systems.
- Solid foundation in semiconductor device physics, manufacturing processes, test failure mechanisms, reliability concerns, and product engineering for analog ICs, digital ICs, discrete devices, and multi-chip modules.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Semiconductor Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- Familiarity with platforms such as Exensio.
This role has been open 24 days — exactly the 24-day median for Silicon Test Engineering roles.
Silicon Test Engineering · DFT Test
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Open roles in category
523
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Median days open
24 d
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Median salary
$169k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | onsemi | All employers we track in this specialty (523 roles · 75 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 15 | 523 |
| Open roles in the wider Silicon Validation & Test family | 78 | 2215 · 111 employers |
| Median days open | 24 d | 24 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Teradyne · 67 open roles · median 21 d
- Infineon Technologies · 39 open roles · median 35 d
- Renesas Electronics · 39 open roles · median 24 d
- AMD · 28 open roles · median 36 d
- Micron Technology · 28 open roles · median 30 d
- Qualcomm · 25 open roles · median 23 d
How we counted: 523 open Silicon Test Engineering (DFT Test) roles from 75 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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 Silicon Validation & Test family row. Figures refresh nightly.