Principal Product Test Development Engineer

Job Title

Principal Product Test Development Engineer

Role Summary

Lead burn-in and product test development for semiconductor products on advanced technology nodes at GLOBALFOUNDRIES' Essex Junction/Burlington, VT campus. The role defines and delivers burn-in test software, hardware fixtures, and stress content used for product qualification and early-life reliability screening.

The position works cross-functionally with design, process integration, reliability, quality, failure analysis, and customer engineering teams and includes technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities.

Experience Level

Senior — requires significant industry experience: Bachelor's degree + more than 6 years' relevant experience, or Master's degree + more than 4 years' relevant experience.

Responsibilities

Primary duties focus on burn-in engineering, test strategy, system configuration, and program execution for product qualification.

• Own burn-in engineering activities: part-number program development, hardware fixture design, silicon bring-up, debug, and validation.
• Develop, optimize, and sustain burn-in stress content for qualification and reliability screening to meet device coverage, throughput, and stress limits.
• Define and own burn-in test strategy with customers and internal stakeholders, balancing coverage, throughput, equipment efficiency, data quality, and cost.
• System engineering: configure and calibrate burn-in systems, generate and implement patterns, develop PNPs, and design/debug test structures.
• Execute burn-in programs and perform device debug analysis using instrumentation such as digital oscilloscopes.
• Manage first-silicon bring-up projects, coordinate hardware vendors and offshore stress execution, and control part-number program releases and revisions.
• Produce and maintain operational procedures and comprehensive hardware and program documentation.
• Collaborate across functions (design, process, reliability, QA, FA, customer engineering) and support Environmental, Health, Safety & Security programs.

Requirements

Technical skills and experience required for satisfactory performance in this role.

• Fundamental understanding of circuit design and electrical test, and how electrical characteristics affect product behavior.
• Knowledge of semiconductor processing, process integration, and use of test chips/test structures for yield and reliability analysis.
• Experience with burn-in systems and related hardware.
• Scripting skills in Perl and/or Python for test automation and analysis.
• Familiarity with JTAG and SPI interfaces and logic test concepts (scan, ATPG).
• Design-for-Test knowledge for Logic, Memory, and Analog test methodologies.
• Experience with test program execution, device debug, and use of lab instrumentation (e.g., oscilloscopes).

Education Requirements

Required: Bachelor's degree in Circuit Design, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field with more than 6 years' related experience; or a Master's degree with more than 4 years' related experience. (No alternative-equivalent wording provided in the source.)

About the Company

Company: GlobalFoundries

Headquarters: Saratoga Springs, New York, USA

GlobalFoundries is a leading contract manufacturer for the global semiconductor industry, with facilities in multiple countries, including the USA. The company develops a broad portfolio of semiconductor technologies and employs around 13,000 people worldwide. GlobalFoundries focuses on enhancing competitiveness in specialized application solutions and fostering innovation in mobile communications, consumer electronics, and automotive applications.