Job Opening for PhD Student at Philips Lumileds Lighting in San Jose

Title: Failure Analysis Engineer

Organization: Philips Lumileds

Location: San Jose, CA, USA  

Description: Failure Analysis Engineers always face new types of technical challenges. The challenge is to identify the root cause of electrical, chemical, structural, and thermal defects and failures. In order to successfully carry out various kinds of failure/defect analysis, failure analysis engineer needs to continuously study new technical areas and come up with the creative ideas to solve the technical issues which are most of time multidisciplinary. FA Engineer is a key member of product development and process development and works closely with product development team, process development team and manufacturing team. FA engineer’s contribution immediately and significantly impacts the quality of company’s products.

Responsibilities:

• Will analyze product failure to identify the root cause of the failure of new product and new process

• Will analyze yield reject to improve manufacturing yield

• Will characterize LED product chemically, electrically, optically, thermally and structurally

• Will develop 1) new characterization tool and 2) application of characterization tool

• Will work with functional team for product development and process development

Your Team: Advanced FA Team at Philips Lumileds is composed of highly technical and talented staffs with various backgrounds (Material Science, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Physics). The team is in charge of performing 1) Failure Analysis for new product/process development and 2) Defect Analysis for yield improvement.

Our Offer: Advanced FA Team will provide never-ending technical trainings and offer various kinds of interesting and technical challenges which help you technically grow quickly and eventually become a master of technical problem solving.

What We Are Looking For: Advanced FA Team is looking for a highly motivated and passionate technical staff who is willing to learn various technical areas, has out-of–box thinking and can bring creative ideas and solutions to technical challenges.

Qualifications:

• PhD in Physics, EE, Materials Science Engineering with emphasis in semiconductor material/epi/device characterization

• In-depth knowledge and experience in semiconductor process

• Hands-on experience in semiconductor characterization tools

• Knowledge and experience in SEM, FIB, TEM is a plus.

• Knowledge and experience in element analysis such as EDX, Auger, XPS and SIMS is a plus.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills Philips is an equal opportunity employer.

Contact: Sungwook Huh (Sungwook.huh@philips.com)