Senior Manager, Product / Test Engineering
Description
Invent the future with us.
Recognized by Fast Company’s 2023 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators List, Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient, sustainable cloud computing.
By providing a new level of predictable performance, efficiency, and sustainability Ampere is working with leading cloud suppliers and a growing partner ecosystem to deliver cloud instances, servers and embedded/edge products that can handle the compute demands of today and tomorrow.
Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team — we’d love to have you apply!
About the role:
In this position, you will join a great team in Ampere Taiwan and work with top talents in the industry, make contributions in Operations. Will be responsible for the product engineering team in Taiwan/Asia and be the site leader in Hsinchu. Responsible for staff, setting goals, road map for team and ensuring their success. Responsible for WAT, wafer sort and FT yield data reporting, trend analysis and yield improvement. Work with wafer fab and sort, final test facilities to ensure product quality and product movement.
What you’ll achieve:
- Lead team of primarily Product and Hardware Engineers
- Lead optimization and continuous improvement efforts on production test yields
- Lead optimization and continuous improvement efforts on Probe Cards, Load Boards, SLT board performance and maintenance
- Drive yield improvement for wafer sort, Final Test, and SLT test. Report actuals monthly/weekly: trends, targets, and plans for improvement
- Lead optimization and continuous improvement efforts on equipment usage including consumable material scheduling and minimizing site variability
- Drive Yield enhancement activities
- Support Ops team on NPI startup and HVM deployment activities
- Responsible for production lot disposition and low yield analysis/debug
- Reduce production cost by improving yields and reducing test time
- Perform statistical analysis of yield fallout, debug and fix yield issues
- As site lead, look out for the overall organizational health at the site.
About you:
- BSEE or MSEE with 12+ years (5+ years managing a team) in semiconductor product engineering experience
- Hands-on experience in VLSI SoC or microprocessor product bring-up and productization
- Knowledge of semiconductor fundamentals and CMOS circuits
- Excellent analytical and debugging skills and the ability to proactively solve issues
- Proven ability to learn and adapt to new methodologies and technologies
- Experience with yield improvement and test time reduction
- Solid background in ATE testing, test methodology, silicon process and DFT/DFM
- Familiarity with SCAN/ATPG/MBIST tests
- Strong yield enhancement background
- Have implemented yield management tools
- Excellent problem solving, teamwork, collaboration and interpersonal skills
- Experience working directly with a wafer fab on yield enhancement, lot dispositioning, RMA, trend analysis
- Strong English skills and ability to communicate effectively with Senior management.
What we’ll offer:
At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. We offer an annual bonus program tied to internal company goals and annual meritocratic equity awards that enable our employees to participate in the success of the company.
Benefits highlights include:
- Premium medical and annual health checkup, in addition to national social insurance, so that you can feel secure in your health and financial future
- Generous paid time off policy so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance
- A monthly food stipend, variety of healthy snacks, energizing coffee or tea, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.
- Seasonal team building events
And there is much more than compensation and benefits. At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more. We are passionate about inventing industry leading cloud-native designs that contribute to a more sustainable future. We are excited to share more about our career opportunities with you through the interview process.