Principal Product Development Engineer

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Job Description

Develop Teradyne ETS-300/364 Probe/Package Test capability, characterize, qualify, and release to production newly defined products. Serves as the central resource with design, process, manufacturing, test, quality and marketing as the product(s) move to completion and distribution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the test development of Power Integrated Circuits by applying Design for Test strategies. An in-depth understanding of ETS-300 and or ETS-364 tester capabilities, as well as analog circuit knowledge are fundamental to this process.
• Develop product Test Lists by incorporating technical information from numerous resources, including but not limited to Product Data Sheets, IC Design documents and customer application documents.
• Utilize the Test List documents to design ETS-300/364 test interface hardware for new products using Altium schematic capture software.
• Oversee the PCB layout of ETS-300/364 test interface hardware, including Probe Cards, DUT cards and Device Interface Boards.
• Write C++ software for the ETS-300/364 to fully characterize new product IC's, as well as perform high-volume production testing. Must be able to determine test program requirements and resolve functionality issues versus product specification.
• Analyzes characterization data. A solid statistical knowledge as well as well-developed communication skills are necessary to produce and present product performance reports to technical members of the Core team. Reports include tri-temperature histograms and correlation graphs.
• Design Burn-in and Reliability fixtures to assess product performance.
• Analyze Reliability data and generate Life-test drift charts using statistical analysis tools.
• Perform Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility studies to assess the performance of hardware and software solutions using statistical analysis tools.
• Prepares all test fixtures and software for release to high-volume manufacturing. Responsibilities include Test-Time reduction, Spike analysis, Loop Studies and publishing performance reports for critical peer review.
• Over-see the initial ramp-up of product release to production, analyzing rejects and improving product yield. Prepare yield analysis reports identifying process root cause failure modes for corrective action.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:

Candidate must possess a BSEE with a minimum of 5-8 years of related experience. Experience in Power Management products specifically including LDO's, Buck/Boost converters, and LED display drivers is required along with experience in Teradyne Eagle programming.

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