Sr. Staff Product Engineer

Location: San Jose (on-site)
General Description
Product engineering is a key role in delivering high quality connectivity products to the market. As a Sr. Staff Product Engineer you will be responsible for 1) collaborating with design teams to drive DFx into product architecture, 2) defining manufacturing flows and test content optimized for yield, quality, and cost, and 3) analyzing production data to identify design and process gaps impacting yield and driving closure of gaps. You will be partnering with fab, design, packaging, validation, and manufacturing teams to deliver best-in-class connectivity products to the market.

Essential Functions

• Publish product health indicator (PHI) roadmap forecasting test time, yield, and quality goals as a function of time from first Si to HVM startup
• Define manufacturing strategy and test flow to achieve PHIs
• Collaborate with design team to implement DFT features to achieve desired test coverage
• Define the requirements specs for test hardware (probe card and loadboard) to enable desired test content/coverage
• Write the test program
• Own the success of the product by driving towards hitting the PHIs
• Drive test time reduction and test socket elimination to achieve cost goals
• Drive DPM reduction through test hole closure
• Drive yield up by identifying root cause of failures and working with design, fab, and packaging to address gaps

Basic Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or related field.
• 5+ years experience in semiconductor industry as a product development engineer
• Experience working with design team pre-Si to define test and DFT strategy
• Experience establishing end-to-end manufacturing flow/strategy for optical transceiver products, including a deep understanding of photonic component fabrication and assembly, and specification and optimization of optical channels
• Experience establishing end-to-end manufacturing flow/strategy for CMOS products, including deep understanding of CMOS fab processes and advanced packaging
• Experience developing test programs for optical transceiver products
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior company leadership and customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree (PhD) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or related field.
• Experience establishing end-to-end manufacturing flow/strategy for optical IO products, including deep understanding of photonics fab and assembly processes
• Experience developing test programs for optical IO products on industry standard and/or custom platforms
• Experience working with fab and OSAT to drive yield and quality agenda
• Developing tools to automate test program generation and data analysis

Salary range: $160,000 - $223,000

Note To Recruiters
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About Ayar Labs
At Ayar Labs we're about to revolutionize computing by moving data with light. We're unleashing processing power for artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cloud and telecommunications by removing the bottlenecks created by today's electrical I/O -- making it possible to continue scaling computing system performance. Ayar Labs is the first to deliver an optical I/O solution that combines in-package optical I/O chiplets and multi-wavelength remote light sources to replace traditional electrical I/O. This silicon photonics-based I/O solution enables chips to communicate with each other from millimeters to kilometers, to deliver orders of magnitude improvements in latency, bandwidth density, and power consumption.

With our strong collaborations with industry leaders and government, our deep ties to MIT and UC Berkeley, and our commitment to hiring the best engineers in photonics and electronics, joining our team gives you the opportunity to collaborate with renowned experts on challenging, paradigm-shifting work.

We are passionate about delivering in-package optical I/O at scale, leveraging the strength of our patent portfolio and our team of leading interdisciplinary experts. We believe that deep cross-collaboration between teams facilitated by honest, open debate is the best way to drive innovation and achieve big wins. Join our team and experience the possibilities.

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