Product Test Engineer (ATE Volume Test)

About the role

Cisco's Silicon One Productization team builds manufacturing and test solutions to speed time-to-market and improve supply chain metrics. It is looking for a Product Test Engineer to manage volume test operations at the OSATs so that production targets are met. The role works with advanced networking silicon and solves hardware and software problems in close partnership with product development engineering and the OSATs.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with the PDE and OSAT teams to transfer ATE test programs from the Cisco lab to the production environment.
• Act as the first line of defense against production issues, resolving test issues quickly and driving OSATs to meet throughput, yield, cycle time and uptime metrics.
• Ensure the OSAT roadmap and capacity ramp plans match the Cisco product ramp, and maintain production test hardware.
• Evaluate test vendors and recommend alternate site bring-ups, completing qualification activities.
• Support Manufacturing Operations with quarterly planning, ship reviews and production optimization.
• Work with the Data and Automation Solutions team to run statistical yield and correlation analysis on large data sets to optimize test and yield.

Required profile

• BSEE (or higher) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
• 5+ years in ATE volume production test environments, preferably on high-end compute or networking devices.
• Ability to debug, analyze and root cause manufacturing yield issues and field escapes, driving them to closure with improvements and preventive measures.
• Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals and strong technical analytical skills.

Required skills

• Preferred: familiarity with manufacturing processes and yield optimization.
• Preferred: experience with the Advantest 93000 tester.
• Strong programming and scripting skills are a plus.