Now Hiring - Essai - Manufacturing Test Cell Applications Engineer in San Jose, CA

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Job description

Advantest is looking for a Test Cell Applications Engineer, for our San Jose, California office, to support turn-key test cell solutions deployment and ramp-up activities, to be delivered primarily to customers in the semiconductor design/development and manufacturing ecosystems.

This person will work with both local and remote Advantest and Customer teams and will deliver solutions on time, while exceeding customer expectations. Working and collaborating with different business units, namely Device Integration (DI), ETS (Socket Design Team), ATS (SLT Team), Applications (SOC) and downstream SATs is expected.

Responsibilities Include

• Responsible for coordinating on-site deployment and bring-up of both established and NPI Advantest test cell turn-key solutions at engineering and/or HVM Customer sites, for all insertions: wafer sort, failure analysis, final, bench-top and system level test. Responsible for leading and coordinating on-site test cell subsystems (sockets, probe cards, loadboard, probers, handler, ATE/SLT tester, etc.) troubleshooting, with pertinent Advantest Teams’ support, to reach the goal of timely bringing a test cell online and into production for the first time, or, back online, after a failure, if/when a multi-disciplinary test cell domain expertise is required
• Same as the requirements above, for mixed turn-key test cell solutions, featuring third-party subsystems, requiring support and collaboration from Advantest partners
• With the support of relevant Advantest Teams, act as primary on-site turn-key test cell solution point of contact, managing all the bring-up and troubleshooting aspects, making Advantest a one-stop shop test cell solution provider, from the Customer’s perspective
• Systematically convey learnings and new requirements from test cell deployment and troubleshooting activities into the respective pertinent Advantest Team(s), to address issues and/or further improve and/or expand Advantest test cell solution capabilities
• Coordinate and/or participate in person or remotely, based on needs, in Customer test cell escalations, if/as required, if/when a multi-disciplinary test cell domain expertise is required, and dependencies prevent one Advantest Team alone from resolving a specific test cell issue
• Identify unaddressed and strategic, high-value test cell feature set, to potentially add to Advantest’s test cell solution portfolio
• Interacts with all Advantest Teams, FUs and BUs, which provide the contributing products and services that make up the Advantest test cell ecosystem
• Effectively and timely communicates with all Advantest Teams, FUs and BUs, as he/she drives turn-key solutions, to keep all stakeholders up to date, in an organized and structured fashion (Teams/SharePoint/Jira).

Travel:

This position requires a minimum of 25% domestic/international travel.

Requirements

• Must be a Team player
• Engineering or equivalent MS degree
• 15+ years of field experience in a technology development or manufacturing-based company, preferably ATE equipment and/or ATE HW interfaces
• ATE equipment (tester/handler/prober/SLT) hands-on experience; Advantest V93000 SOC testers and handlers experience will be an added advantage
• ATE interfaces (loadboards, probe cards, sockets, change kits) design, manufacturing and/or hands-on experience
• Refined customer-facing skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills
• Must be able to function independently, possess sharp problem-solving and negotiation skills and identify recovery plans from unexpected setbacks
• Work comfortably with all levels of Advantest and customer’s organizations
• Pre-sales and customer negotiations experience will be an added advantage
• Plan and lead team meetings with both local and remote teams, in an effective and productive fashion
• Productive and successful in an intense work environment with dynamic changing priorities
• Well versed in Microsoft Office suite and web conferencing tools (Teams/WebEx)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $96,650.00 - $213,970.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Compensation package:

• Yearly bonus

Experience level:

• 10 years
• 11+ years
• 7 years
• 8 years
• 9 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Master's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Semiconductor Industry: 7 years (Preferred)
• automated test equipment: 7 years (Preferred)
• hardware: 7 years (Preferred)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Required)

Work Location: On the road