COE Application Engineer
About The Position
Hands-on Center of Expertise (COE) Application Engineer responsible for application development, system integration, customer enablement, and technical support across SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test platforms. The role works across semiconductor testers, automated handlers, thermal systems, instrumentation, test programs, firmware, software, and production test-cell environments to develop, validate, deploy, and scale complete test solutions. The position leads system bring-up, application development, device integration, characterization, qualification, production ramp activities, customer evaluations, demonstrations, and deployments. It translates customer and production requirements into test solutions, improves test-cell performance, coordinates root-cause resolution across engineering teams, develops reusable COE resources, and trains regional engineers, partners, and customer teams. The role is onsite in Lake Forest, California, with domestic and international travel, sometimes on short notice.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of applications engineering, semiconductor test, system integration, product engineering, or related hands-on technical experience.
- Strong experience with one or more of SLT, Burn-In, semiconductor ATE, HPC/AI device test, test program development, handlers, thermal systems, or high-power test systems.
- Strong system-level troubleshooting skills, including debugging across hardware, firmware, software, networking, and DUT execution.
- Experience integrating semiconductor test equipment, physical hardware, instrumentation, device interfaces, handlers, or thermal systems.
- Working knowledge of Python, C/C++, C#, scripting, or comparable automation tools.
- Working knowledge of Windows and/or Linux environments, networking, logs, telemetry, and data analysis.
- Understanding of semiconductor production metrics, including yield, test time, throughput, utilization, and availability.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Willingness to work onsite in Lake Forest, California, in an on-premises, non-hybrid setup.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally, sometimes on short notice, to support customer evaluations, system bring-up, production ramps, escalations, and technical workshops.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work directly with customers and global engineering teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with SLT, Burn-In, ATE, HPC, ActivATE/ActivATE360, or Advantest test platforms.
- Experience testing GPU, CPU, AI accelerator, server, chiplet, or other high-performance computer devices.
- Experience with high-power device testing, advanced thermal control, liquid cooling, handlers, and complete test-cell integration.
- Experience taking semiconductor test solutions from engineering evaluation through qualification and high-volume manufacturing.
- Knowledge of GEM/SECS, MES, equipment automation, factory data, production observability, or data analytics.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical subject matter expert for SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test applications.
- Lead hands-on system bring-up, application development, device integration, characterization, qualification, and production ramp activities.
- Develop and optimize test flows, recipes, configurations, operating parameters, and application methodologies for complex semiconductor devices.
- Integrate and debug complete test-cell solutions across tester hardware, handlers, thermal systems, instrumentation, firmware, software, networking, and test programs.
- Support customer evaluations, proof-of-concepts, demonstrations, benchmarks, technical workshops, and production deployments.
- Work directly with customers to translate device, factory, reliability, throughput, electrical, thermal, and production requirements into test solutions.
- Characterize and improve test time, throughput, yield, repeatability, utilization, availability, power delivery, and thermal performance.
- Drive structured root-cause analysis for complex system-level issues and coordinate resolution across Applications, Systems, HW, SW, FW, Test Program, and R&D teams.
- Develop reusable COE reference solutions, validation methods, troubleshooting guides, best practices, and application documentation.
- Train regional Applications Engineers, Field Service Engineers, partners, and customer engineering teams.
- Provide field and customer feedback to Product Management and R&D to influence future platform, software, firmware, and system requirements.
- Use automation, scripting, data analytics, and AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate application development, debug, and characterization.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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Job Type
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