Product Failure Analysis Engineer (Semiconductor)

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Salary: $149,100–$215,925 USD per year for the Bay Area California region

Company

hirify.global is a pure-play FPGA solutions provider developing programmable technologies for AI, cloud, networking, and edge markets.

What you will do

• Perform debug and root-cause analysis of yield, reliability, and customer-return failures in FPGA products.
• Drive electrical verification and fault isolation during product development, yield improvement, and reliability assessments.
• Define, execute, and interpret non-destructive fault-isolation methods using commercial testers and specialized tools.
• Use emission microscopy, Laser Voltage Probing, and OBIRCH for electrical fault isolation.
• Analyze layouts, schematics, and designs, and collaborate with physical failure analysis teams on defect modes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in semiconductor failure analysis.
• 8+ years of experience with layout and design tools such as Virtuoso, Avalon, or SysNav.
• 8+ years of experience with Laser Voltage Probing, Photo Emission EMMI, and OBIRCH tools.
• 8+ years of experience with DFT, logic fault localization, and investigations focused on root cause and yield or reliability improvement.
• Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor failure analysis.
• Understanding of FPGA architecture and design debug features.
• Experience with Teradyne Ultraflex testers.
• Experience with semiconductor packaging failure analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Incentive opportunities based on individual and company performance.
• Collaboration across IC and package design, foundry, product, manufacturing, and reliability engineering teams.
• Work on programmable technologies for rapidly evolving AI, cloud, networking, and edge markets.