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Senior Electrical Failure Analysis Engineer at Nvidia Corporation

Posted in General Business 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Santa Clara, California





Job Description:


NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

We are looking for a skilled, creative and highly motivated Senior Electrical Failure Analysis Engineer to join the electro-optical FA team for our central FA lab.

What you'll be doing:


  • Your main job will be to perform electro-optical failure analysis including Photon-Emission, Laser-Voltage-Probing and Soft-Defect-Localization (aka SDL, LADA...) to support product development, design-debug, yield-ramp, reliability and customer return analysis of advanced flip chip devices manufactured in the most advanced CMOS technology.


  • The work requires in-depth understanding of scan-chain based logical test. Based on production test results (e.g. error-logs, flop mapping and SW-diagnosis) you will narrow down the logically failing area with the goal of locating the one failing FET or cell out of the whole chip.


  • Most analyses will require you to setup test-loops within our Advantest 93k tester SW, which is becoming increasingly complicated due to test-compression. Additionally, you will use CAD layout tools for in-chip navigation and circuit simulation tools to aid your analysis. The goal is that our EFA results enable different Physical FA teams local and abroad to find the actual physical root-cause. Based on our work and the resulting PFA findings, our Foundry partners can improve their process technology and increase our product yield and reliability.


  • You will need basic Unix skills because our 93k tester environment, the CAD and circuit simulation tools are all run in a Unix environment.


  • Design-debug and more complicated defect localizations will often require you working in multi-functional teams (e.g. with Design for Test, Test-Engineers and Product-Engineers, sometimes around the globe..) including presenting & explaining your results. To guide such team and PFA efforts you will need deep understanding of transistor physics, the CMOS fabrication processes and PFA tools/techniques such as SEM, TEM, FIB & AFM.


What we need to see:


  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience


  • 5+ years of practical experience


  • Deep understanding of modern DFT for large-scale logical test (scan-chain based structural and at-speed testing and basics of test compression).


  • Experience working in a lab, setting up and debugging test environments.


  • Functional knowledge of transistor device physics & advanced CMOS manufacturing processes.


  • Test bring-up in the Advantest 93k test environment.


  • Knowledge of CAD layout tools, t-max circuit analysis and Unix operating system.


  • Good written and verbal communication skills and ability to lead and organize projects are critical.


  • Software languages that may be of use include PERL, TCL, C++, STYLE.


Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Masters degree or a PhD within a related field of research desirable

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be a highly desirable employer. We have some of the most forward-thinking and passionate people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our best-in-class teams are rapidly growing. If you're creative and independent, we want to hear from you!

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression , sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.





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