The Allegro team is passionate about providing intelligent solutions that move the world toward a safer and more sustainable future. With more than 30 years of experience developing advanced semiconductor technology, innovation with purpose touches every aspect of our business. From customer engagement and employee recognition to technology advancement and serving the local communities in which we maintain offices, innovation consistently drives our mission and definition of success.
SUMMARY
The Individual in the role will provide timely and accurate failure analysis of the electrical and mechanical characteristics of systems and/or integrated circuits, components, and sub-components systems to determine the cause of failure, including the verification of analog and digital performance.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Works with cross-functional teams (Manufacturing, Quality, Reliability, Design, etc.) to solve problems arising from customer returns, process anomalies, engineering evaluations, and new product development
Develop methods, processes, procedures and equipment that will improve the failure analysis process and/or reduce failures
Wet and Dry Chemical de-processing or parallel polishing will be used to reveal the defects
Micro probing and circuit understanding/debugging will be required to isolate the defects
Demonstrated competence without supervision the operation and application of standard failure analysis tools including: X-ray analysis, Acoustic Microscopy, Light Microscopy, Oscilloscopes, IR microscopy, OBIRCH, photon emission microscopy (PEM) and SEM/EDS analysis, and Focused Ion Beam methods.
Required to work on rotating shifts or fixed assigned shifts including weekends
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's Degree in electrical, electronics and physics with solid understanding of circuit theory, and semiconductor physics
8-10 years of hands on semiconductor device Failure analysis experience on silicon die level
Good knowledge of analog/digital circuit analysis, semiconductor physics and bipolar/CMOS, analog/power/mixed-mode IC design preferred
Demonstrated proficiency utilizing MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, photo-editing, Cadence schematic and layout, MATLAB.
