Principal Engineer, Reliability

About GF 

GlobalFoundries (GF) is a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, enabling AI at scale from the cloud to the physical world. Through deep partnerships with customers, GF delivers differentiated, power efficient and high-performance solutions for high growth markets. With global manufacturing operations across the U.S., Europe and Asia, GF is a trusted and holistic technology partner for customers around the world. GF’s talented, global team remains focused every day on security, longevity, and sustainability. For more information, visit www.gf.com. 

Introduction:  

As Principal Engineer in reliability, you will need to have basic reliability knowledge and understanding of the reliability failure mechanisms, preferably in gate oxide, transistor device and/or back-end-of-line reliability. Semiconductor process and/or device physics knowledge is a plus. Your responsibilities are to collaborate with fab and technology development teams and perform reliability test structure design, reliability testing and analysis, risk assessments and design rule proposals.

Responsibilities:   

• Provide technical support on qualifications & reliability improvements i.e. qualification plan definition, test condition determination, hardware & software design for special test requests, test results analysis and provide recommendations for competitiveness & improvement.
• Execute benchmarking exercises on reliability testing methodology, process qualification criteria & reliability design rules.
• Design and characterize reliability test structures for qualification and definition of reliability layout rules and models.
• Establish reliability test requirements for new / advanced technology.
• Provide technical support to customers on building-in reliability into final products.
• Continuously improve reliability test cycle time & accuracy through refinement of test structure design and test methodologies.
• Play key role in new technology core team to build reliability into the device/process.
• Assess reliability risk for process changes, fab excursions and field failures from customers.
• Build up modeling for HCI/NBTI/TDDB/PID/EM/BEOL TDDB failure mechanisms and use the modeling to support IC designers’ reliability risk assessment.
• Have ownership of the definition, documentation and maintenance of test procedures, test findings & tools, plus training of reliability staff.

Qualifications & Experiences:  

• Bachelor / Master / PhD Degree in Engineering (Electronics, Materials or Physics).
• Minimum 7 years of experience in semiconductor reliability.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work under tight project timeline.
• Knowledge of Minitab, JMP, FMEA, 8D is an advantage.

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