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You will work alongside a team of talented engineers dedicated to delivering best-in-class analytical services and technical reports that drive product quality, reliability and customer success.\nThis position offers exceptional opportunities to expand your technical expertise, develop new analytical capabilities, and contribute to some of the company's most challenging and impactful investigations. Engineers in our lab enjoy access to advanced fault localization, physical analysis, and materials characterization capabilities while collaborating with product engineering, design, quality, reliability and manufacturing teams worldwide.\nWhy join Tempe PAL\nAccess industry-leading fault localization, physical analysis and materials characterization tools.\nInvestigate one of the industry's most diverse semiconductor portfolios, including CMOS image sensors, automotive products, analog and mixed-signal ICs, digital devices, and Silicon Carbide (SiC) technologies.\nCollaborate with highly experienced engineers and subject matter experts across a global network of Product Analysis Labs\nDevelop new analytical capabilities and influence future laboratory technologies and methodologies.\nExpand both technical and leadership expertise while supporting high-impact business-critical investigations.\nPlay a key role in improving product quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction across the company.\n Perform electrical and lead physical failure analysis investigations on customer returns and internally generated failures arising from qualification, reliability, design debug, manufacturing, and technology development activities.\nDevelop comprehensive analysis strategies using background information such as electrical test results, ATE data, reliability information, imaging results, application knowledge, and design data.\nCharacterize the failure modes using semiconductor parameter analyzers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, function generators, application boards, automated test equipment and other advanced laboratory instrumentation.\nUtilize fault localization techniques such as Photon Emission Microscopy (PEM), Optical Beam Induced Resistance CHange (OBIRCH), Electro-Optical Frequency Mapping (EOFM), Electro-Optical Probing (EOP), microprobing, nanoprobing, scan diagnosis, and related methodologies to localize failure sites.\nDirect and interpret physical and materials characterization activities utilizing SEM, FIB, TEM, EDS, FTIR, X-ray, CT imaging, and advanced sample preparation techniques.\nCorrelate electrical characterization, fault localization, physical analysis and materials characterization results to determine root cause and clearly identify failure mechanisms.\nPrepare clear, concise, and data-driven technical reports that effectively communicate analytical findings and support 8D problem-solving activities.\nPresent analytical findings and recommendations to cross-functional engineering teams, management and customers as required.\nDevelop and implement new analytical methodologies, workflows, and laboratory capabilities to address emerging technologies and increasingly complex failure mechanisms.\nProvide technical leadership, mentorship, and training to engineers and technicians while helping establish best-known analytical practices across the laboratory.\n Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related engineering discipline; 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