Failure Analysis Engineer

Failure Analysis Engineer

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Failure Analysis Engineer located in Perai, Penang.

What a typical day looks like:

• Responsible for implementing and maintaining cost-effective methods of troubleshooting systems, software, and/or equipment.
• Implementing solutions on critical items to propose to the customers and to keep in good health the failure inventories of the repair or manufacturing process.
• Accountable to keep and increase the technical knowledge and work with the education department to develop or make planning to train the technical people. In order to have a good flexibility between projects or technologies.
• Directs and/or coordinates electronic engineering and/or technical personnel in design of methods of failure analysis, testing and test control apparatus and equipment, or software and systems testing.
• Directs and coordinates electronic engineering activities concerned with development, procurement, installation and calibration of instruments, equipment and control devices required to test, telemeter and record test data.
• Directs and coordinates the strategies of debugging the failed product of the test process.
• Determines conditions and procedures under which the technicians are to be conducted and indicators and phases of the debug process.
• Interfaces and confers with scientific, engineering and technical personnel to resolve testing and troubleshooting problems such as failures of product or system malfunctions, incomplete test data, failure analysis reports, new solutions, obsolete components data interpretation or coding issues.
• Analyzes and interprets failures data and prepares technical reports for use by electronic or software engineering, and management personnel.
• Develops or uses computer software and hardware to conduct tests on electronic products and systems or software.
• Trains and instructs floor support, debug technicians and test operators on test hardware and/or software, failures solutions as well as proper problem solving techniques.
• Resolves test yield problems by performing analysis of root causes, developing and coordinating corrective action measures and monitoring improvements.
• Analyzes circuits and topologies to identify marginal issues or compatibility issues between components.
• Yield trend and Pareto analysis to identify epidemic failures that required deeper analysis.
• Develop and monitor the efficacy and efficiency metrics to improve the diagnostic process.
• Provide technical documentation and tools for diagnostic purposes.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Possesses a degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 2 years of working experience in the related field is required.

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