(台灣半導體) PTE - HW (Lead V93K Test Hardware Engineer)
BH-340186
Posted: 08/07/2026
- Competitive
- Taiwan Taiwan
- Permanent
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IT
Role Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead V93K Test Hardware Engineer to drive test hardware bring-up, debug, and correlation activities in a high-volume manufacturing environment. The candidate will play a critical role in ensuring robust test hardware performance, production stability, and yield optimization across wafer sort and final test.
Key Responsibilities
1. Test Hardware Bring-up & Qualification
Required Qualifications
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead V93K Test Hardware Engineer to drive test hardware bring-up, debug, and correlation activities in a high-volume manufacturing environment. The candidate will play a critical role in ensuring robust test hardware performance, production stability, and yield optimization across wafer sort and final test.
Key Responsibilities
1. Test Hardware Bring-up & Qualification
- Lead load board / probe card bring-up for new products on Advantest V93K platform
- Perform hardware checkout, validation, and debug during initial silicon bring-up
- Drive GRR, stability, and repeatability qualification before production release
- Work closely with design/Test Engineering teams during NPI to HVM transition
- Debug production failures related to test hardware, test interface, and signal integrity
- Perform bench-to-ATE correlation and root cause analysis using lab equipment (Scope, DMM, Thermal tools)
- Identify issues related to socket, load board, pogo pins, probe card, and contact failures
- Support RMA, yield excursions, and lot-on-hold analysis
- Own ATE-to-ATE, ATE-to-bench, Load board to Load board correlation
- Drive correlation reports and acceptance criteria for production readiness
- Validate test limits, guard bands, and parametric consistency across sites
- Ensure smooth hardware release to OSAT / production sites
- Monitor hardware-related yield issues and drive root cause & corrective actions
- Perform failure trend analysis, bin analysis, contact yield issues troubleshooting
- Support test time reduction (TTR) and throughput optimization
- Work closely with product engineering for continuous yield improvement (Aligned with yield improvement, correlation, and production analytics)
- Review and support schematic design, layout, and SI considerations for load boards
- Optimize site configurations, signal integrity, power distribution, and thermal performance
- Drive multi-site scalability and cost optimization of hardware solutions
- Lead interaction with: Test Engineering (TE) Product Engineering (PE) Failure Analysis (FA) OSAT / Manufacturing teams
- Mentor junior engineers and drive best known methods (BKM) for hardware debug & correlation
- Manage project timelines, risks, and stakeholder communication
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s / Master’s in Electrical / Electronics Engineering
- 10+ years of experience in semiconductor test / hardware engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with: Advantest V93K (SmarTest 7/8) Load board / probe card bring-up and debug
- Production test (WS & FT environment)
- Deep understanding of: Silicon bring-up, characterization, and correlation Signal integrity, power delivery, and analog/digital measurements
- ATE instrumentation (DPS, AVI, PPMU, HSIO)
- Experience with high-volume manufacturing (HVM) support
- Strong data analysis capability (JMP / Exensio / Excel)
- Knowledge of test program structure and interaction with hardware
- Exposure to JEDEC / AEC qualification and reliability testing.
- Experience working with global teams and OSATs
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.