Product Failure Analysis Engineer

Job Title

Product Failure Analysis Engineer

Role Summary

Lead electrical failure analysis and root-cause debug for FPGA products using advanced foundry process technologies. Work with IC/package design, foundry engineering, product, manufacturing, and reliability teams to isolate faults, drive yield improvements, and resolve customer returns.

Primary focus is non-destructive electrical fault isolation using emission microscopy, laser voltage probing, OBIRCH and commercial test equipment.

Experience Level

Level - Senior. Expectation: 8+ years of semiconductor failure analysis and related hands-on tool experience.

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities include electrical verification, fault isolation, and collaboration across engineering teams to identify and remediate failures.

• Collaborate with product, yield, reliability, and manufacturing engineers to drive electrical verification and fault isolation during development and production.
• Support debug and fault isolation on customer returns and field issues.
• Define, execute, and interpret non-destructive fault isolation methods using commercial testers and FA tools.
• Perform emission microscopy (EMMI), laser voltage probing (LVP), and OBIRCH measurements independently.
• Analyze layouts, schematics and design artifacts to localize logic faults and failure modes.
• Coordinate with physical failure analysis teams for defect correlation and verification.

Requirements

Must-have technical experience and skills; preferred items listed separately.

• Must-have: 8+ years of semiconductor failure analysis experience.
• Must-have: 8+ years using FA tools such as Laser Voltage Probing (LVP), Photo Emission (EMMI), and OBIRCH.
• Must-have: 8+ years with layout and design tools (e.g., Virtuoso, Avalon, SysNav) and schematic/design analysis.
• Must-have: 8+ years of DFT and logic fault localization experience; experience driving investigations to root cause and yield/reliability improvements.
• Preferred: 10+ years of failure analysis experience.
• Preferred: Understanding of FPGA architecture and design debug features (DFT).
• Preferred: Experience with Teradyne Ultraflex tester and semiconductor packaging failure analysis.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field (as stated in the minimum qualifications).

About the Company

Company: Altera

Headquarters: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Altera provides leadership programmable solutions for applications ranging from cloud to edge, unveiling limitless AI possibilities. Their extensive product portfolio includes FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, and System on Modules aimed at accelerating innovation in various fields.