Failure Analysis Engineer

Overview

• The Failure Analysis department is evolving as a highly efficient, state-of-the-art facility.
• Providing characterisation and analytical services to Production, Yield Enhancement, Research and Development, the department also deals with customer returns.
• The Failure Analysis department will be a vital tool in ensuring that PragmatIC Semiconductor achieves its technology goals.
• The FA Engineer will be responsible in supporting and servicing the foundations of a highly effective FA and Device Characterisation team, supporting the growth in both the team and lab services.
• This role will be very hands on engineering with technical support/advisories expected to support, guide, and lead the various members within the team.
• Reporting directly to the FA Manager, this role has many opportunities to make immediate impacts across our many internal and external business streams.
• Pragmatic Semiconductor is a rapidly expanding organisation, offering talented and ambitious employees a wide variety of opportunities for growth.

Key tasks

• Project engineering and coordination that meets both FA team and company set objectives.
• Growing Failure Analysis, Device Characterisation and Customer Returns services both internally as well as externally through effective growth of our FA/device characterisation engineering resources and services.
• Technical reporting, operational documentation, device forensics and general communications across the many business streams expected across, including on occasions directly to the Technical Leadership Team.
• Within the team, help to develop and evolve novel scientific techniques to consistently deliver effective FA solutions.
• Provide technical mentoring/coaching within a team of operators and technicians.
• Help to establish and maintain a safe, happy and productive laboratory environment.

Training and Qualifications

• The successful candidate will be educated to degree or postgraduate degree level within a scientific or engineering discipline and will ideally demonstrate a strong background in Failure Analysis, Device Characterisation and/or Analytical sciences.
• Ideally expertise gained through the Semiconductor industry but would consider candidates from relatable industries which share the same FA service requirements.

Training and Qualifications

• Technical expertise and experiences of Failure Analysis and Analytical Characterisation techniques. – Essential.
• Strong cross functional communications skills – Essential.
• Technical report writing / presenting skills -Essential.
• Previous experiences in analytical lab and device characterisation spaces – Advantage.
• Previous experiences in mentoring/coaching within FA technical environment – Essential.
• Process development engineering and operational FA competencies within a high technology environment. – Essential.
• Enabling and selecting appropriate external partners and service providers for FA & device characterisation requirements - Advantage