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About the Department:
Yield Engineering is responsible for advanced data analytics, problem solving device issues, and improving yield methodologies within product engineering. Yield engineering works horizontally across several functional organizations and is key to driving yield and performance distributions.

Job Purpose:
The purpose of this position is to contribute significantly to yield debug as part of the overall product life cycle. Contributions will span many areas the key of which are statistical analysis, semiconductor performance analysis and data interpretation. As a key member of the team you will have significant deliverables in order to achieve overall product goals.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Assist yield engineers in data analysis, characterization, and problem solving.
2. Perform engineering and correlation studies to ensure yield meet corporate target goal to start production ramp.
3. Participate on cross-functional teams, work closely with R&D team, and help resolve production related issues.
4. Write and maintain documents on best practices for yield.

Skills and Experience Requirements:
1. Semiconductor theory and Electronics
2. Statistics
3. Computer hardware
4. Strong organizational, computer and communication skills

What you will learn
You will learn about semiconductor manufacturing, testing and device performance. The types of problem solving techniques that will be gained will provide a great stepping stone for advanced graduate degrees in any field.