Associate Engineer, Lifecycle Test Engineering

Location: Bristol

Our Team and Job Summary:

Semtech’s Signal Integrity Products (SIP) group designs and manufactures high performance mixed-signal integrated circuits for the world’s leading data, video, and consumer communication companies. We are looking for someone who loves working at the cutting edge of technology to develop innovative hardware and software test solutions for our product portfolio. We deliver products to our customers that meet or exceed their quality and performance requirements while achieving the lowest cost of test. If you are someone who loves a challenge and enjoys being part of a high-performing team, we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement test solutions at package and/or wafer level for new products on the Advantest V93000 test platform, including both software and hardware;

• Work with a cross-functional product team to assess and evaluate new designs and provide feedback based on ATE test results;

• Participate in new product design meetings and work with senior test engineers to drive analog and digital DFT techniques into new devices;

• Collaborate with Product Engineering to complete ATE characterization to ensure the robustness of IC designs and test solutions over specified conditions and process variation;

• Support product qualification by developing reliability screening solutions to evaluate device performance during life testing;

• Deploy test solutions to our far-shore OSATs and support the ramp-up to full production;

• Hold periodic test review meetings with project teams and create required documents and reports;

• Optimize existing test solutions to improve yield and/or test time and drive continuous margin improvement.

• Deliver high quality test results in line with quality management standards;

• Produce concise, accurate and timely project reports and updates (written and oral).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar discipline;

• Lab experience;

• Understanding of PCB design circuit design;

• Ability to work in a cross-functional team and build relationships with peers in other disciplines;

• Capable of working to aggressive project timelines;

• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with design, product, validation, test and applications engineers;

• Work to aggressive project timelines;

• Multitask with multiple projects in different lifecycle phases;

• Engage with outside hardware vendors to ensure test hardware is ready to meet project schedules.