Jobs at Cohu, Inc.

Designs and develops mechanical and electromechanical automation systems for semiconductor handling equipment. Responsibilities include concept development, prototyping, mechanical analysis, detailed drawings, BOMs, testing, reliability improvement, vendor qualification, and production transfer. Collaborates with electrical, software, vision, operations, sales, and customer teams. Manages project requirements, schedules, budgets, design reviews, and integration activities while mentoring junior engineers and designers.

Leads a hardware engineering team developing precision, high-voltage, and high-current semiconductor ATE instruments. Owns architecture, analog design, ASIC and advanced packaging requirements, partner management, laboratory validation, and product release to manufacturing. Guides cross-functional firmware, software, mechanical, and manufacturing teams while managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, customer issues, and instrument roadmaps.

Design, develop, and maintain diagnostics, calibration, and verification software for semiconductor automatic test equipment. Collaborate with software, firmware, hardware, and applications engineers to support ATE performance, reliability, instrumentation, and measurement-related challenges across complex long-lived systems.

Provide technical support for Linux-based automatic test equipment platforms, diagnosing operating system, driver, middleware, hardware, and test execution issues. Responsibilities include customer deployments, system integration, configuration, software updates, log and crash analysis, remote and occasional onsite support, documentation, training materials, and new product introduction activities. The role collaborates with engineering teams and supports global customers and manufacturing partners.

Develops mechanical designs for device kits, including detailed part and assembly drawings, bills of materials, and engineering change orders. Supports design refinement, fabrication, testing, manufacturing, customer requirements, and kit application guidance. Modifies fabricated parts, ensures timely hardware availability, and supports manufacturing operations while following safety, environmental, ethical, and 5S requirements.

The Regional Sales Manager will achieve sales targets, develop accounts, manage customer relationships, analyze markets, forecast sales, coordinate technical and engineering engagements, communicate product roadmaps, oversee orders through customer acceptance, and support after-sales service. The role requires extensive travel across Malaysia and overseas while working with sales, field service, engineering, product, and technical support teams serving semiconductor customers.

Leads system-level development of complex robotic, electromechanical, and mechatronic platforms. Translates customer requirements into system concepts, defines architectures and interfaces, evaluates technical risks, guides interdisciplinary engineering teams, and ensures compliance with certification requirements. The role includes technical mentoring, design reviews, innovation, requirements traceability, customer discussions, intellectual property support, and schedule leadership. Requires expertise in thermal systems, motion control, sensor integration, machine intelligence, and system engineering, with international travel up to 20%.

Develop and lead module-level concepts for complex robotic and electromechanical platforms. Translate customer requirements into system architectures, specifications, and technical interfaces; evaluate concepts using physics-based modeling, manage risks, facilitate design reviews, ensure subsystem compatibility and regulatory compliance, and coordinate cross-functional development schedules. The role also presents technical solutions to customers and stakeholders and requires international travel of up to 10%.

Develop and support high-performance C++ machine vision software for semiconductor manufacturing and inspection equipment. Build and optimize image-processing algorithms for detection, segmentation, alignment, identification, measurement, and defect inspection. Integrate vision systems with automated equipment, troubleshoot production issues, conduct testing and code reviews, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. The role may also provide technical mentoring and support deployment, manufacturing, field service, and customer needs.

Leads electrical design for semiconductor automation equipment from concept through production. Responsibilities include machine-level electrical architecture, panel and wiring design, power distribution, safety systems, CAD documentation, technical leadership, project scheduling, build support, troubleshooting, certification compliance, and field installation support.

Designs electrical schematics, wiring, cable assemblies, and harnesses for complex semiconductor handler systems. Creates wire lists, cable schedules, connector tables, harness drawings, labels, BOMs, and manufacturing documentation. Supports prototype and production builds, resolves integration and documentation issues, participates in design reviews, and maintains engineering changes throughout the product lifecycle while collaborating with mechanical, firmware, manufacturing, and systems teams.

Leads manufacturing engineering activities from product development through production launch and sustaining operations. Responsibilities include DFM/DFA reviews, process and tooling development, assembly and test optimization, engineering change implementation, work instruction creation, quality and yield improvement, site transfers, contract manufacturing support, component qualification, and continuous improvement. The role supports global manufacturing launches, trains cross-functional teams, and requires travel to international factories and customer sites.

Designs, tests, integrates, and improves mechanical device packages and automation equipment. Responsibilities include root-cause analysis, vendor product testing, engineering change processing, project scheduling, functional specification writing, and manufacturing support. The role requires collaboration with customers, sales, manufacturing, and machine shop teams, along with technical guidance for junior staff. Work involves SolidWorks, mechanical design, semiconductor manufacturing processes, FMEA, and MTBF analysis.

Leads a global multidisciplinary engineering organization developing and commercializing semiconductor test platforms. Responsibilities include system architecture, technology roadmaps, AI-enabled engineering, stage-gate NPI, verification and validation, manufacturing readiness, customer engagement, and organizational leadership. The role oversees complex electromechanical product development, manages engineering managers and distributed teams, and partners with operations, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Develops and maintains production schedules aligned with capacity, demand, materials, and shipment commitments. Monitors production progress, bottlenecks, workloads, WIP, and factory KPIs; coordinates with production, procurement, inventory, customer service, and operations teams. Releases work orders, updates manufacturing commit dates, reports status, manages exceptions and RMAs, supports material reviews, analyzes delays, and recommends process improvements using ERP/MRP systems and Excel.

Purchases direct and indirect materials, manages demand and inventory, coordinates supplier relationships and quality issues, processes purchase orders in ERP, and improves logistics, lead times, safety stock, and supply chain performance.

Manages a software engineering team developing high-quality features for semiconductor handler software releases. Responsibilities include coordinating escalations and design reviews, ensuring software quality, communicating with customers, estimating timelines, improving coding standards and test automation, documenting best practices, and translating strategic goals into technical roadmaps.

Manage customer enquiries, purchase orders, order confirmations, sales order communication, backlog tracking, shipment updates, PO records, and customer reporting. The role supports accurate, timely end-to-end order processing and sales operations while coordinating with internal operations teams.

Develops, debugs, and integrates application programs for customer test specifications in the ATE and semiconductor industry. Provides technical training and onsite or offsite customer support, including production ramp-up and troubleshooting. Collaborates with Sales, Marketing, and global Applications teams, reports project status, supports system sales, improves processes, and identifies tester operating system issues. Frequent customer interaction, international teamwork, and travel are required.

Conduct applied AI and machine learning research for semiconductor testing. Define ambiguous technical problems, develop measurable evaluation methods, build and fine-tune models, and create RAG, knowledge-graph, and agent systems. Translate unstructured tester documentation and protocols into production solutions, collaborate with engineering and domain experts, and deploy tools that improve workflows. The role also requires monitoring emerging AI technologies and proposing new research directions.