The Role
Drive manufacturability, cost reduction, quality and process optimization for V93000 IC tester products in an outsourced manufacturing environment. Manage product changes, technical supply chain processes, and collaborate with contract manufacturers and cross-functional international teams to meet supply chain and customer requirements with minimal supervision.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
As a Product Engineer in the SoC Test Supply Chain Division team, you will aim:
- to drive Advantest towards operational excellence in an outsourced manufacturing
environment, - to drive manufacturing processes’ optimization, cost reduction and quality improvement
initiatives, - to take supply chain metrics towards defined goals working closely with our contract
manufacturers, internal teams in Development, Supply Chain and Product Marketing in a very
international environment, - to manage quality, product changes and technical supply chain processes of products to
constantly fulfill customer and business requirements, - to provide special technical advice to peers and management,
- to actively drive supply chain requirements into hardware and test software design to achieve
efficient and predictable manufacturability by utilizing the capabilities of our partners, - to bring new instruments of the V93000 IC tester into production on time,
- to do all the above without close and constant supervision, neither from peers nor from
managers.
- A bachelor’s or master’s or PhD degree in electrical engineering or a closely related field.
- Ideally a basic knowledge of mechanics or mechanical engineering.
- A basic knowledge of end-to-end manufacturing processes of high-level electronic assemblies
- Good knowledge (ideally practical) of printed circuit assembly development and manufacturing processes (such as work preparation, setup, screen printing, SMT assembly, inspection etc.)
- Analytical skills in failure detection (data analysis to identify HW errors, electronic measurements and debugging electronic assemblies).
- Ideally a basic knowledge of statistics and statistical process control.
- Ideally a basic knowledge of LINUX and C (or any of its variants) or Python.
- Proactive, flexible, and innovative mindset with problem-solving skills, demonstrating strong ownership.
- Good communication skills and team player in cross-functional, cross-company and international (overseas) teams.
- Fluent in written and spoken English: confident use of technical terms, e.g. when creating documentation and ideally, at least B1 level (intermediate) in German.
- Positive attitude and confident demeanour when dealing with suppliers and customers.
- Good self-organization and self-motivation are required to thrive in the constantly changing work environment of this multi-faceted job.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or closely related field
- Basic knowledge of mechanics or mechanical engineering
- Knowledge of end-to-end manufacturing processes of high-level electronic assemblies
- Practical knowledge of printed circuit assembly development and manufacturing processes (work preparation, setup, screen printing, SMT assembly, inspection)
- Analytical skills in failure detection, data analysis to identify hardware errors, electronic measurements and debugging electronic assemblies
- Basic knowledge of statistics and statistical process control
- Basic knowledge of Linux and C (or variant) or Python
- Proactive, flexible, innovative mindset with strong ownership and problem-solving skills
- Good communication skills and ability to work in cross-functional, cross-company international teams
- Fluent written and spoken English; ideally at least B1 level German
- Positive attitude and confident demeanor when dealing with suppliers and customers
- Good self-organization and self-motivation to work independently in a changing environment
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The Company
What We Do
For over a half-century, Advantest has been designing innovative electronic measuring equipment and semiconductor test systems essential to the development and manufacture of advanced computer and telecommunications products. On April 1, 2012, Advantest completed its integration of Verigy Ltd. Additional Information about Advantest can be found at www.advantest.com.







