Test Engineer, Sr. Staff

Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Test Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6 years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5 years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4 years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

What You'll Do:

• Work with design, validation and product engineering team members to develop production test solutions for cutting edge high speed SOC's with 112/224/Optical PHY products.
• Develop test methods and generate/convert test vectors to support production and characterization test on Advantest 93K (Smartscale) or Teradyne Ultraflex
• Work with planning and product engineering to support customer sampling requirements
• Develop production-worthy highspeed ATE hardware (board/socket) which involves working with Simulation/Design teams to close the signal integrity simulation to meet the required high speed performance
• Target product cost reduction efforts through test time reduction and multisite testing

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Experience with device characterization, running production test diagnostics, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with quality including integrated circuit qualification, production release, test time reduction, and yield improvement.
• Good communication skills in English

Preferred qualifications:

• 7-10 years of experience in Industry VLSI technologies, Test Engineering and Product Engineering
• Familiar with process technology, and how it relates to design and testing Data analysis: wafer sort and final test.
• Familiar with Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) test platforms, Advantest 93K SOC test system or Teradyne Ultraflex test system.
• Familiar with advanced packaging such as 2.5d.
• Familiar with Design for Test (DFT) techniques and structural tests such as Scan/ATPG, JTAG, and memory BIST.
• Familiar with SERDES, PCIe, DDR and Mixed-Signal circuits such as ADC, DAC, PLL, LDO, and their performance measurements.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$176,800.00 - $265,200.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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Salary : $176,800 - $265,200