Senior Product Development Engineer ATE Test Engineer

Job Title: Senior Product Development Engineer – ATE Test Engineer

Experience: 5-12 Years

Location: Hyderabad

Qualification: BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics, or related disciplines

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated ATE Test Engineer to develop and deploy manufacturing test solutions for next-generation high-performance processors, data center, enterprise, and server products. The engineer will be responsible for ATE test development, silicon bring-up, characterization, yield improvement, and production test release activities.

The ideal candidate should possess strong experience in Advantest 93K test development, semiconductor product engineering, silicon validation, and high-volume manufacturing test methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Design, Validation, and Architecture teams to ensure comprehensive IP and product test coverage.
• Develop, debug, validate, and optimize ATE test programs and test patterns.
• Build and maintain scalable and reusable test-program infrastructure using industry best practices.
• Participate in first silicon bring-up, debug, and validation activities.
• Evaluate and validate new product features, test methodologies, and test conditions.
• Perform silicon characterization across:Process corners
• Voltage corners
• Temperature conditions
• Correlate engineering and production test results to ensure manufacturing readiness.
• Release robust test programs for high-volume production.
• Drive initiatives focused on:Yield improvement
• Test time reduction
• Product quality enhancement
• Cost optimization
• Analyze production data and debug yield excursions.
• Support qualification testing and customer return analysis.
• Collaborate with global engineering and manufacturing teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Required Skills

ATE Test Development

• Strong hands-on experience in semiconductor ATE test development.
• Experience developing test content, test methods, and manufacturing test solutions.
• Strong understanding of digital and mixed-signal semiconductor testing.
• Experience with silicon bring-up, validation, and characterization.
• Knowledge of production test release and manufacturing test flows.

Automatic Test Equipment

• Hands-on experience with:Advantest V93K / Advantest 93K (Preferred)
• Other ATE platforms considered a plus

Semiconductor Validation

• Experience with:Silicon characterization
• Device validation
• Yield analysis
• Product qualification
• Failure analysis
• Understanding of semiconductor manufacturing and NPI processes.

Technical Skills

• Test Program Development
• Test Content Validation
• Test Pattern Generation
• Debug and Failure Analysis
• Yield Improvement
• Production Test Release
• Silicon Bring-up
• Characterization Testing

Protocols & Interfaces

• JTAG
• BIST
• HSIO Validation
• High-Speed Interface Testing

Programming Skills

Strong experience in one or more of:

• C
• C++
• Python
• Java
• Ruby
• Perl

Operating Systems

• Linux
• Unix
• Windows

Tools & Methodologies

• Version Control Systems (Git, SVN, etc.)
• Statistical Analysis
• Data Mining
• Yield Analytics
• Production Data Analysis

Preferred Experience

• Advantest 93K SmarTest development experience.
• Experience designing and debugging ATE load boards.
• Understanding of modern CPU, server, and SoC architectures.
• Exposure to high-performance computing, enterprise processors, and data center products.
• Statistical process control and yield optimization experience.
• Customer-return and RMA debug experience.
• Experience working with high-volume manufacturing environments.

Key Competencies

• ATE Test Development
• Advantest V93K
• Semiconductor Product Engineering
• Silicon Validation
• Silicon Characterization
• Yield Enhancement
• Failure Analysis
• Test Program Development
• JTAG
• BIST
• HSIO
• Python
• C/C++
• Production Test
• Data Center Processors
• High Performance Computing