Senior Manager, Failure Analysis

The Allegro team is passionate about providing intelligent solutions that move the world toward a safer and more sustainable future. With more than 30 years of experience developing advanced semiconductor technology, innovation with purpose touches every aspect of our business. From customer engagement and employee recognition to technology advancement and serving the local communities in which we maintain offices, innovation consistently drives our mission and definition of success. 

SUMMARY

• Leads a team of highly technical failure analysis engineers to resolve extremely complex failures where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of multiple factors including mechanical, electrical data, and physical failure signatures

• Responsible for training/educating failure analysis engineers and technicians on new techniques and for cross training to propagate best practices.

• Makes decisions on administrative and operational matters of failure analysis organization and ensures effective achievement of operation’s objectives including failure analysis cycle times, accuracy and thoroughness leading to first pass success.

• Participates with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.

• Regularly interacts with internal and external customers. Interactions may involve controversial situations, negotiations, or influencing and persuading other senior level managers.

• Demonstrates assertiveness leading to effective change management, employee performance engagement. Interacts regularly with the team soliciting inputs for efficiency improvements, failure analysis techniques development and failure resolution.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Works with cross-functional teams (Manufacturing, Quality, Reliability, Design, etc.) to solve problems arising from customer returns, process anomalies, engineering evaluations, and new product development

• Develop methods, processes, procedures and equipment that will improve the failure analysis process and/or reduce failures

• Wet and Dry Chemical de-processing or parallel polishing will be used to reveal the defects

• Micro probing and circuit understanding/debugging will be required to isolate the defects

• Demonstrated competence without supervision the operation and application of standard failure analysis tools including: X-ray analysis, Acoustic Microscopy, Light Microscopy, Oscilloscopes, IR microscopy, OBIRCH, photon emission microscopy (PEM) and SEM/EDS analysis, and Focused Ion Beam methods.

• Required to manage team of FA engineers and technicians who work on rotating shifts or fixed assigned shifts including weekends

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics or Physics with solid understanding of circuit theory, and semiconductor physics

• Master’s degree or PhD preferred

• Minimum 10 years managerial experience in semiconductor industry, out of which 5 years should be in Failure analysis; 12-15 years of hands on semiconductor device Failure analysis experience on silicon die level

• Must be a good problem solver, demonstrate good interpersonal skills and be a go-getter

• Good knowledge of analog/digital circuit analysis, semiconductor physics and bipolar/CMOS, analog/power/mixed-mode IC design preferred

• Demonstrated proficiency utilizing MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, photo-editing, Cadence schematic and layout, MATLAB.