Physical Failure Analysis Engineer, Team Leader

Job Description
Our laboratory in Sunnyvale, CA, provides test, engineering, and reliabilityservices to a broad spectrum of technology-based sectors. We are proud to support our clients who range from startup stages to Fortune 500 global industry leaders. Our failure analysis staff succeed within a challenging but inspiring world of innovation;
helping to support our clients research, develop, understand, and refine technologies that shape consumer electronics, medical device, automotive, military, aerospace, and manufacturing industries, just to mention a few. We demonstrate a hands-on approach to technical expertise by utilizing leading-edge methods and tools to attain insight that fuel engineering. If you enjoy being immersed in technology, dreaming about the future, tackling challenges head-on, problem-solving through teamwork, flexing your technical abilities and taking pride in accomplishments, then join us to live this every day.
Examples of the type of investigations:
Identifieda semiconductor fabrication defect as well as a design related issue within a non-functioning, first version product to be used in a novel medical application:
With this failure insight, the client was able to quickly implement appropriate changes and corrections to the manufacturing and redesign, producing a working product to further their new product launch activities.
Isolatedand identifiedthe exact root cause of a product failure in the field, to a manufacturing event produced uniquely by a particular production step:
With this information, the client was able to initiate a strategic containment plan to recall/quarantine the affected lot to avert catastrophic failures before they occurred. This helped prevent a larger public incident that could have damaged their product reliability and brand reputation.
In this role, you will employ a variety of advanced tools and techniques to help support diverse aspects of a client’s needs, which includes conducting technical discussions to understand the scope and expectations, designing and executing appropriate analytical plan/method, consulting with value-added insight and result interpretation, and recommending suitable next steps.
As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible working along side your peers in the lab also for project management, job planning, involved in legal projects and working on complex client issues. This is a dynamic role where you will be exposed to ever-changing and evolving array of samples on the path of innovation.
If this role and the types of cases excite you, enjoy a challenge, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a team centric approach to solving problems, we encourage you to apply.
This role is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) therefore all accepted applicants must be U.S. Persons as defined by ITAR:
U.S. Person is a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.E., "
Green Card Holder"
), Political Asylee, or Refugee.