Senior Staff Characterization Engineer

In this position, the successful candidate will work primarily with experienced design, applications and test engineering teams to ensure that Vishay develops silicon that achieves full compliance against target specifications, industry standards and customer acceptance criteria. This is a senior, hands-on role with the opportunity to create a real, lasting impact within the organization and to build a promising career.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Development of IC characterization strategies, covering both ATE and bench level characterization environments as appropriate.
• Development of strategies for accelerated lifetime testing, skew-lot specification and testing and temperature testing.
• Documentation of comprehensive silicon characterization plan.
• Participation and design of dedicated HW to support IC characterization steps.
• Automation of lab-based and ATE-based characterization steps, for robust, repeatable, high quality data result gathering and analysis.
• Structured issue tracking & reporting.
• Extensive collaboration with both design and test engineering teams for detailed circuit analysis and root cause analysis of unexpected or erroneous results.
• AC timing characterization of customer proprietary communications interfaces.
• Development of methodologies and procedures to ensure high levels of data discipline to support HW platform robustness, repeatability of bench-level testing and quality of results.
• Planning, tracking and reporting of project progress against key milestones
• Provide an environment where collaboration, effective communication and learning is fun and rewarding