Application Engineer

Hands-on Application Engineer responsible for application development, test program development, customer enablement, and technical support across SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test platforms. The role works directly across semiconductor testers, automated handlers, thermal system.

Job responsibilities

• Serve as technical liaison for SLT, Burn-In, HPC, and AI semiconductor test applications.
• Lead hands-on system bring-up, applications development, device integration, characterization, qualification, and production ramp activities.
• Develop and optimize test flows, recipes, configurations, operating parameters, and application methodologies for complex semiconductor devices.
• Integrate and debug complete test-cell solutions across tester hardware, handlers, thermal systems, instrumentation, firmware, software, networking, and test programs.
• Support customer evaluations, proof-of-concepts, demonstrations, benchmarks, technical workshops, and production deployments.
• Work directly with customers to translate device, factory, reliability, throughput, electrical, thermal, and production requirements into test solutions.
• Characterize and improve test time, throughput, yield, repeatability, utilization, availability, power delivery, and thermal performance.
• Develop reusable reference solutions, validation methods, troubleshooting guides, best practices, and application documentation.
• Train regional Applications Engineers, Field Service Engineers, partners and customer engineering teams.
• Provide field and customer feedback to Product Management and R&D to influence future platforms, software, firmware, and system requirements.
• Use automation, scripting, data analytics, and AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate application development, debug, and characterization.
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or aN equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of applications engineering, semiconductor test, system integration, product engineering, or related hands- on technical experience.
• Strong experience with one or more of the following: SLT, Burn-In, semiconductor ATE, HPC/AI device test, ActivATC/ActivATE360, Advantest test platforms, test program development, handlers, thermal systems, or high-power test systems.
• Strong system-level troubleshooting skills with the ability to debug across hardware, firmware, software, networking, and DUT execution.
• Experience integrating semiconductor test equipment, physical hardware, instrumentation, device interfaces, handlers, or thermal systems.
• Experience testing GPU, CPU, AI accelerator, server, chiplet, or other high-performance computer devices.
• Working knowledge of Phyton, C/C++, C#, scripting, or comparable automation tools.
• Working knowledge of Windows and/or Linux environments, networking, logs, telemetry, and data analysis.
• Understanding semiconductor production metrics including yield, test time, throughput, utilization, and availability.
• Willingness to work on customer sites to support bring-up
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally, sometimes on short notice, to support customer evaluations, system bring-up, production ramps, escalations, and technical workshops.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work directly with customers and global engineering teams.