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Senior Semiconductor Failure Analysis Engineer
📍 Austin, TX (Onsite)
💰 $120,000 – $200,000 benefits
🏭 Semiconductor / Advanced Hardware Engineering
🕒 Full-time W2 | 5 years semiconductor failure analysis experience
I’m supporting a highly advanced semiconductor engineering team hiring for an Electrical Silicon Failure Analysis Senior Engineer to work on cutting-edge silicon and hardware technologies within a world-class engineering environment.
This is not a standard electronics role.
This opportunity is suited to engineers who genuinely live in the semiconductor failure analysis world, people who can isolate faults at silicon level, diagnose complex IC/device failures, and work hands-on with advanced FA lab equipment and techniques.
You’ll be working across device-level and board-level failure analysis, investigating electrical faults, performing deep root-cause analysis, and supporting highly sophisticated silicon and hardware environments.
The team is looking for engineers who are genuinely hands-on technically, someone who is comfortable operating advanced FA tools rather than simply coordinating or reviewing results.
Key Skills
- Semiconductor / silicon failure analysis
- Electrical Failure Analysis (EFA)
- Physical Failure Analysis (PFA)
- Device-level and board-level fault isolation
- FIB (Focused Ion Beam)
- SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy)
- LIT, TDR, and emission microscopy
- Micro-probing and nano-probing
- Decapsulation and sample preparation
- Root cause analysis of IC/device failures
What You’ll Be Doing
- Performing device-level and system-level failure analysis
- Conducting electrical fault isolation using advanced FA methodologies
- Investigating complex silicon and hardware failures at microscopic level
- Producing detailed technical reports and root-cause findings
- Supporting advanced semiconductor diagnostics and engineering investigations
- Working hands-on with cutting-edge FA lab tools and equipment
This is an excellent opportunity for experienced semiconductor FA engineers looking to work in a highly advanced engineering environment where deep technical expertise is genuinely valued.
If you already work within semiconductor failure analysis, silicon diagnostics, reliability engineering, or advanced FA lab environments, I’d be very interested in speaking with you.
Salary : $120,000 - $200,000