What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Application Engineer position at Advantest?
Job Description:
With a long legacy of success, innovation, and customer recognition, Advantest America, Inc. (AAI) is the North American subsidiary of Advantest Corporation, the world's largest provider of automated test equipment (ATE) to the semiconductor industry. Headquartered in Japan and operating from Silicon Valley in the U.S., AAI brings together a unique cross-cultural blend of Japanese precision and California innovation.
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Application Engineer to join Advantest to develop cutting-edge test solutions across the entire test ecosystem including wafer test, package test, and system level test. This role is tailored for a deeply technical individual with advanced knowledge of test solutions of entire integrated test cells and hands-on expertise with sophisticated test equipment like the Advantest V93000, engineering handlers, load boards, probe cards, and exceptional customer-facing capabilities. You will work on cutting-edge technologies, delivering high-performance test solutions on the Advantest V93000 platform as well as other leading Advantest products.
This is a high-impact opportunity to define Advantest’s application engineering strategy and contribute to test innovation at the highest technical level. Join us to shape the future of semiconductor testing with creativity, technical depth, and global collaboration.
Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & System Strategy:
- Translate customer requirements into optimized test solutions.
- Architect, develop, and debug test programs for complex devices
- Guide ATE system configuration, load board and probe card design, and test interface integration.
- Provide roadmap feedback and contribute to technical direction in collaboration with R&D and marketing teams.
Application & Customer Engagement:
- Act as a principal technical contact for pre- and post-collaboration engagements.
- Support customer/partner installations, test program bring-up, and correlation activities.
- Work closely with engineering teams across Europe, Asia, and North America.
- Conduct customer demos, and technical deep-dives.
Product & Solution Development:
- Deliver complete test solutions.
- Develop test programs.
- Understand and analyze load board schematics and test interface topologies.
- Ability to run correlations and utilize important data analysis skills
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field; MS preferred.
- 7 years of hands-on ATE and test development experience
- Strong proficiency in test development using Java, Python, C , Linux and automation scripting.
- Deep understanding of test architecture and test techniques.
- Ability to analyze schematics, evaluate signal integrity, and apply de-embedding methods.
- Familiarity with test sockets, probe cards, and probe technologies.
- Strong customer engagement and presentation skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% to support customers and internal sites.
Additional Skills Preferred (but not required):
- Experience with V93000 platform, SmarTest and test solutions.
- Exposure to signal integrity design, simulation, and measurement.
- Prior experience working in a global engineering team or environment