ASIC Failure Analysis Engineer
Cisco SystemsJob Title
ASIC Failure Analysis Engineer
Role Summary
Join Cisco's Quality and Reliability group in San Jose as a Failure Analysis engineer. This hybrid role (approximately three days in the office) focuses on root-cause analysis of ASIC reliability and field failures using failure-analysis (FA) techniques and tools.
The role supports product, test, and design teams by identifying failure mechanisms, recommending corrective actions, and maintaining FA processes and vendor relationships.
Experience Level
Senior - typically 8+ years of experience in semiconductor failure analysis.
Responsibilities
Primary duties include:
- Perform root-cause failure analysis for silicon reliability tests and field failures and recommend corrective actions.
- Develop, document, and implement standard FA processes and test plans.
- Coordinate FA logistics and execute systematic FA workflows using lab equipment and services.
- Document and report FA findings to engineering and management stakeholders.
- Serve as a technical resource for FA inquiries and support cross-functional investigations.
- Maintain relationships with FA service and equipment vendors; oversee outside lab work.
- Interface with product, test, and design engineering to isolate and characterize faults on new technologies.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and practical experience:
- 8+ years of hands-on semiconductor failure analysis experience.
- Proven experience writing and executing FA plans and interpreting results from FA techniques (cross-section, X-ray, CSAM, TDR, FIB, SEM, TEM, IR/EMMI/OBIRCH).
- Proficiency specifying hardware and implementing dynamic FA setups using SIL and LSM.
- Experience with fault isolation using ATE, boundary-scan/ATPG, and MBIST.
- Knowledge of semiconductor technology and processes: fabrication, assembly, and advanced packaging.
- Solid understanding of transistor operation, device physics, and behavior under varied operating conditions.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or a related technical field required; Master's degree preferred.
About the Company
Company: Cisco Systems
Headquarters: San Jose, CA, United States
Cisco Systems is a global technology company that designs and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, software, and services. It provides enterprise and service-provider networking, security, collaboration, and optical communications solutions (including Acacia Communications technologies for high-speed optical interconnects).
