The posting
Key Responsibilities
People Leadership & Team Development
- Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent; build a diverse, high-performing team.
- Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance reviews aligned to business outcomes.
- Coach engineers on technical depth, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and data-driven decision-making.
- Manage team capacity, priorities, and workload across concurrent projects and technology ramps.
- Champion AI tool adoption within the team; enable engineers to leverage AI assistants and automation for accelerated productivity.
Probe Coverage Strategy & Ownership
- Own and drive probe coverage strategy across the product portfolio, ensuring alignment with design intent, process risks, and customer requirements.
- Establish team standards for probe limits, guard-bands, and screening mechanisms based on silicon characterization.
- Lead probe enablement for new product introductions (NPI) and technology ramps; identify risks early and drive mitigation.
- Define and release probe test flows from first silicon through qualification and HVM, balancing coverage with test efficiency.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Partner with Design, DFT, Design Validation (DV), Process Integration, Backend Test, and Reliability teams to ensure probe solutions are technically sound and scalable.
- Represent Probe Engineering in cross-functional forums; influence DFT architecture, test hooks, and observability decisions.
- Drive alignment between probe strategy and downstream test requirements; ensure seamless handoffs.
- Communicate team progress, risks, and trade-offs to senior leadership with clarity and data-backed recommendations.
First Silicon Bring-Up & Yield Enablement
- Oversee first-silicon bring-up activities; ensure team delivers timely characterization and yield learning.
- Drive structured root-cause analysis, failure-mode investigation, and feedback loops to Fab, PI, and Design teams.
- Enable yield ramp through data-driven probe optimization and coverage right-sizing.
Data, Analytics & AI Enablement
- Champion AI/ML initiatives such as predictive probe, smart sampling, anomaly detection, and test optimization.
- Drive adoption of data analytics and automation tools to improve probe effectiveness and team efficiency.
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and enable data-driven decision-making across the team.
AI Adoption & Efficiency Leadership
- Lead and own AI efficiency projects that transform engineering workflows, targeting measurable productivity gains across the team.
- Drive strategic adoption of generative AI tools (e.g., coding assistants, documentation automation, data analysis copilots) to accelerate engineering deliverables.
- Establish AI adoption roadmaps and success metrics; track and report efficiency improvements to leadership.
- Identify high-impact use cases for AI automation in probe engineering processes, from test program development to failure analysis.
- Partner with IT and AI/ML platform teams to pilot and scale AI solutions; provide feedback to shape enterprise AI strategy.
- Build team capability in AI-assisted workflows through training, best practices, and hands-on enablement.
- Ensure responsible AI usage aligned with data governance, IP protection, and quality standards.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering (with hardware/semiconductor focus), Semiconductor Physics, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in semiconductor product engineering, wafer test, or related discipline.
- 2+ years of experience leading or mentoring engineers; formal people management experience preferred.
- Strong fundamentals in semiconductor devices, silicon characterization, yield mechanisms, and probe/test strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business objectives into team goals and drive execution.
- Proven track record of cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder influence.
- Strong analytical skills with ability to guide structured root-cause analysis and data-driven decisions.
- Excellent communication skills; ability to lead across global, cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated experience driving technology adoption or process improvement initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with DFT, design-to-manufacturing integration, or backend test operations.
- Familiarity with AI/ML applications in test optimization, predictive analytics, or smart manufacturing.
- Track record of driving process improvements, test cost reduction, or yield enhancement initiatives.
- Experience leading AI adoption or digital transformation projects; hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Track record of delivering measurable efficiency gains through automation or AI-enabled workflows.



