Principal Engineer of Electrical Failure Analysis

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the organization in developing new methodologies, capabilities, and innovations for failure analysis, and proliferate these across the Micron network.
• Lead collaboration with a diverse group of engineering teams to identify, diagnose, and resolve sophisticated fab issues applying novel failure analysis techniques, statistical data analysis, and other innovative methodologies, effectively identify the root-cause of issues and implement robust solutions.
• Work closely with internal partners to understand requests, define and isolate the problems, deliver clear analysis, and develop robust solution to effectively improve and resolve yield, quality, test programs, and other critical fab issues.
• Support Yield Improvement teams in resolving critical and advance problems, including improving coverage at Probe, repair optimization, pattern stress, bug optimization, and Force Fail criteria review and verification.
• Drive or represent the team in important task force meetings and provide clear, detailed reports to internal partners, explaining the electrical failure models and mechanisms observed.
• Super-user of state-of-art failure analysis and fault isolation equipment, enabling new skills development and delivering outstanding failure analysis with clear insights and root-cause understanding.
• Strengthen organization's technical skills and capabilities through active mentoring and driving continuous improvements projects across the organization.
• Mentor Engineers in the organization through in-depth failure analysis case investigation, MBPS methodology, coordinated training and studies, and writing technical papers.
• Provides advice to leaders and helps shape strategic directions and decisions of the team.

Essential Skills and Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree plus 12 years equivalent work experience in Electrical Engineering, Material Science, Physics, or a related field.
• Effective communication skills in written and spoken English.
• Strong self-motivation and passion.
• Strong multitasking and organizational skills.
• Able to make decisions in sophisticated situations.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Outstanding presentation skills.
• Proven track record to work in an inclusive and diverse work environment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with DRAM process and other memory or logic technologies.
• Outstanding electrical failure analysis, fault isolation, test program, and circuit-level debugging skills.
• Advance programming/scripting, design and product validation/simulation and data analysis, including solid understanding of VLSI, semiconductor process.
• Proficiency in using Cadence or other industry-standard failure analysis and fault isolation equipment and techniques.
• Familiarity with semiconductor fabrication process flow and testing.
• Willingness to engage in shift work as required.

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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