ASIC Senior Test Engineer, Annapurna Silicon Operations

Annapurna Labs develops the silicon used in our most advanced machine learning accelerator servers, utilizing the latest process nodes and massively scaled server clusters to provide the best hardware platform to customers for both inference and training workloads.

We are seeking a mid-career semiconductor test engineer with a background in classic ATE platforms to create a clean running extremely low DPPM product-line forming the foundation to our servers.
As our final product is a server, not just the silicon, you will find yourself stretching beyond structural testing and incorporating a lot more mission profile testing, utilizing a variety of external controlling ICs, porting server management and customer run-time software, including the use of virtualized machines and specific microcontrollers found in the end application.

As such a curious mindset and an urge to learn system architecture will greatly benefit you in this role. We are a nurturing and supporting group that will ensure you have access to all tools, code and mentorship needed to become effective in this exciting new way of working!

A day in the life
Each days work will be a mix of development and debug, the development may be new ATE/SLT/SDP hardware, test collateral (suites), failure contextualization, standard NPI activities. Debug may be point based such as poorly yielding hardware, poor insert GR&R, systemic thermal or contact issues, or more fleet wide, characterizing and debugging overkilling tests, increasing throughput via TTR, feeding back learinings from JDM/ODM to expand ATE coverage.

Key job responsibilities
Core deliverables you will be responsible for:
- Hardware development for probe, final test, system-level test, and singulated die testing
- Non-standard hardware at probe/SDP, such as FPGAs and HBMs, to interface with our die under test
- Systemic yield debug at all inserts finding and minimizing power delivery, thermal, and contact footprint impacted on yield
- Directing OSATs on Test cell qualification and release
- Test collateral development for each insert
- Moving coverage between inserts driven by yield data, cost of test and down stream effects.
- RMA deep dives to find test coverage gaps
- System-SLT-ATE correlation
- Server testing code ported from ATE
- General tool development support.

A day in the life
Each days work will be a mix of development and debug, the development may be new ATE/SLT/SDP hardware, test collateral (suites), failure contextualization, standard NPI activities. Debug may be point based such as poorly yielding hardware, poor insert GR&R, systemic thermal or contact issues, or more fleet wide, characterizing and debugging overkilling tests, increasing throughput via TTR, feeding back learnings from JDM/ODM to expand ATE coverage.

About the team
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Annapurna Labs (our organization within AWS UC) designs silicon and software that accelerates innovation. Customers choose us to create cloud solutions that solve challenges that were unimaginable a short time ago—even yesterday. Our custom chips, accelerators, and software stacks enable us to take on technical challenges that have never been seen before, and deliver results that help our customers change the world.

About AWS
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