About the role

Applications Engineer developing custom engineering solutions for NI products in semiconductor test industry. Collaborating with customers and teams to deliver large scale engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

The NI Semiconductor BU CCS team is seeking to hire an experienced Applications Engineer (Semiconductor Test Development Engineer) to work on the customer engineering opportunities that enable the sale of standard NI products.
Work with NI customers, sales personnel, engineering and alliance partners to define, document, design and deploy NI products tailored to meet specific customer requirements for large scale turnkey engineering solutions.
This is a multi-functional role dealing with diverse engineering needs to design solutions, and to deploy them worldwide. This role requires daily interaction with NI customers, NI Alliance Partners, NI sales, and NI Engineering Teams.
Generate requirements document that can be to finalize statements of work
Define and implement project plans, manage project milestones and hold reviews to assure meeting requirements and ready for deployments
Understand the design and validate analog and digital circuits covering signal interconnect and data communication protocol based on Device Under Test requirements
Participate in the creation of integrated NI modular hardware into a turnkey test system based on test requirements
Evaluate integrated hardware on system reliability, testing accuracy and total system cost of test
Provide guidance and support to NI system operation at customer sites

B.S in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Electronics Engineering Technology or higher
3+ years of relevant industry experience in a System Design Role, Application Engineering, Technical Field Sales or a Test Engineering Design Role
RFIC or mixed-signal IC testing and validation
RF FEM, On-Wafer test, IPD, ADC/DAC, LED, MEMS sensor, PMIC &etc.
Software and system development, including test case development
Text-Based Programming, C++, VB, Java, etc.
Test platform software (SmarTest, IG-XL, etc)
Major semiconductor ATE platform experience (V93000, Ultra, J750, Pax, etc)
Experience in common test engineering instruments: SMU, VSA, VSG, VST, VNA, Power Meter,etc.
Demonstrated understanding of the following concepts and principles: Sources of measurement error, Appropriate selection of instrumentation and equipment layout, Integration of hardware and software, Electrical ground and shield concepts, Familiar with schematic capture tools and PCB design, Statistical analysis of data (Cp, Cpk, GR&R)
Semiconductor experience and knowledge such as ATE, handler, prober, on-wafer test, digital test, fabrication …etc.
Great written and verbal English communication
Strong understanding of electrical engineering, electronics & computer architectures