Technologist

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with the Business Units and Global New Product development engineering teams to productize NAND based SSD products.
• Interfaces with internal teams and external customers on engineering issues involving the unit’s products.
• Plan and execute product qualification plans, from early prototypes to mass production.
• Proactively identify risks during development phase and lead mitigation planning
• Specify the manufacturing test methodology for NAND-based SSD products; design manufacturing test flows and collaborate with test engineering to develop new testers and infrastructure that meet production requirement targets.
• Ensure the production test coverage meets the manufacturing quality and cost targets for a successful launch to production.
• Perform failure analysis on NAND-based SSD products in qualification and  production environments, working as a critical interface between various cross-functional teams, including Test, Reliability, Firmware, ASIC, NAND Design, Operations
• Identify and drive corrective actions, process improvements, error-proofing, and yield improvement efforts with appropriate functional owners.
• Work with development teams on implementation of DFT and other automation solutions where possible
• Work with wafer fab process teams, provide feedback for DPPM and yield improvement activities
• Provide data to the leadership team for making critical decesion related to products, infrastructure and manufacturing processes
• Improving group working efficiency by initiating and implementing automation through software and tools

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Electronics & Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering with 10+ years of experience in protocols like NAND(FLASH) Toggle mode/Onfi, DDR3/4/5, LPDDR3/4/5 GDDR3/4/5/6 and other High speed interfaces
• Thorough understanding of High-Speed PHY and Datapath architectures and other clock recovery and schemes.
• Experience with HW designs, Design validation, Production tests and signal integrity of high-speed interfaces.
• Deep knowledge of the product development cycle from concept to mass production.
• Very analytical in nature and able to work in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• The ability to work independently and drive tasks from start to completion.
• Ability to work cross functionally with SW team to define and implement diagnostics for hardware validation at component, interface, and system level.

SKILLS:

• High level of integrity and commitment to quality and timeliness.
• Experience in managing projects from development to high volume production working together with global cross-functional teams
• Problem solving and executive communication experience
• Experience in using various bench equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and meters.
• Python Scripting skills to automate tests, logs parsing and data collection.
• Hands-on lab equipment skills for electrical validation and characterization.
• Must have a good knowledge of Automated Test Equipment (ATE) and test interface hardware.