NVIDIA
Senior Failure Analysis Engineer, Optical Fault Isolation
$144K–$264K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; semiconductor failure analysis, yield engineering, or product engineering.
- Education
- MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a closely related field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Performs die-level logic fault localization and semiconductor failure analysis to identify root causes, improve yield, and support product quality.
What you'll do
- Conduct hands-on physical and electrical fault isolation and root-cause analysis.
- Use Advantest 93K to test and characterize DUTs and set up test looping for fault-analysis techniques.
- Collaborate with design, test, product, and foundry engineering teams to resolve yield, performance, and reliability issues.
What they ask for
- MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a closely related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of direct, hands-on experience in semiconductor failure analysis, yield engineering, or product engineering.
- Strong practical experience with the Advantest 93k test platform.
- Good understanding of DFT basics and logic fault localization; expert-level experience with LFI techniques such as LVP, EMMI, SDL, OBIRCH, or other photon/laser-based techniques.
Nice to have
- Experience with Teradyne Ultraflex.
Pay
144,000 USD - 230,000 USD (base salary, Level 4); 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD (base salary, Level 5)
Tools
Advantest 93K, Advantest 93k, Scan, BIST, boundary scan, LVP, EMMI, SDL
AI focus
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes; the role’s stated duties do not involve AI work.
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