Senior Staff Engineer Test Technology Innovation

Key responsibilities in your new role

• Develop and lead key wafer function test hardware solutions, including tester-to-prober interfaces, probe interface boards, probe cards, docking hardware, and test head handling concepts
• Translate product, equipment, and manufacturing requirements into robust hardware concepts that support different device technologies, tester platforms, prober models, and production environments
• Contribute to the definition, refinement, and standardization of prober docking solutions for broader usage, with focus on repeatability, planarity control, alignment accuracy, maintainability, safety, and ease of setup
• Drive hands-on design evaluation, hardware validation, first article assessment, debug, documentation, and release-to-production activities for wafer test hardware
• Support innovation in wafer-level test hardware for power, mixed-signal, discrete, and wide-bandgap semiconductor technologies, including high-current, high-voltage, thermal, and precision measurement applications
• Work closely with test engineering, product engineering, equipment engineering, manufacturing, quality, safety, and external suppliers to ensure hardware readiness for engineering builds, pilot runs, and production ramp
• Analyze and resolve technical issues related to probe card interface performance, pogo tower or direct docking concepts, cable or soft docking, test head manipulator operation, mechanical tolerance stack-up, planarity, and wafer probing repeatability
• Create and maintain design guidelines, troubleshooting methods, validation checklists, technical reports, and best practices to improve hardware quality and reduce recurring issues
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and technicians, share lessons learned, and help build internal capability in wafer test hardware development and prober integration

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Electronics, Semiconductor Technology, or a related engineering discipline
• Typically 8–12 years of relevant experience in semiconductor test, wafer probe, ATE hardware development, probe card technology, probe integration, test equipment engineering, or related hardware development roles
• Strong practical understanding of wafer function test, wafer sort, probe process flow, probe card technologies, tester-to-prober integration, and production test requirements
• Hands-on experience with probe interface boards, probe cards, docking hardware, pogo towers, direct docking, cable or soft docking concepts, manipulators, and test head handling systems is highly preferred
• Ability to interpret schematics, PCB layouts, mechanical drawings, tolerance concepts, BOMs, and hardware design documentation
• Experience with hardware validation, equipment buyoff, production release, root-cause analysis, statistical data analysis, GR&R or repeatability studies, and structured problem-solving methods such as 8Dor DOE
• Strong analytical and hands-on troubleshooting capability, with the ability to convert complex technical constraints into practical, manufacturable, and maintainable hardware solutions
• Good communication, stakeholder management, technical reporting, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and work effectively with external suppliers
• Self-driven, accountable, collaborative, and comfortable working independently across multiple technical topics in a fast-paced semiconductor manufacturing environment