System Level Test Engineer, Server CPU

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The Role

Our System Level Test engineer requires a background in server class systems with focus on the processor SoC. Goal is to deliver high quality devices to customers and react instantly to any issues. A sense of urgency to drive and deliver critical business milestones. You will have a strong interest in testing, enjoy working in a production environment with your team, and establishing necessary schedules and plans.

What the Team Wants You to Know

Ampere operation SLT team is the quality center to support and deliver quality products to our customers for their success with Ampere products. You will have the opportunity to lead, develop new skills, and be a part of the next generation of computing. We are a team of passionate engineers with a startup attitude and industry experience who are focused on changing the landscape in the datacenter

What you’ll do

• Lead optimization and continuous improvement efforts on production screen
• Ensure high quality test program released to OSAT in Asia
• Maintain test programs, modify as needed for quality and yield improvements
• Support Ops team on NPI startup and HVM deployment activities
• Reduce production cost by improving yields and reducing test time
• Monitor and work with OSAT team to resolve daily production issues
• Debug system level failures to root cause
• Drive and work with OSAT team to follow manufacturing test requirements
• Support SLT HW and test equipment purchase, installation, configuration and maintenance
• Work with OSAT team for SLT handler and consumables maintenance
• Work with team to fully analyze issues on test equipment, systems, and tools
• Support SLT boards test in lab and CM to deliver quality SLT boards to OSAT
• Leverage automation tools to conduct stress test, Burn-In test for reliability
• Work with test equipment vendors and OSAT end users for DFT, DFM improvement
• Drive continuous improvement by leverage learning from the current product to the next
• Direct in-depth team analysis including voltage/frequency/temperature characterization
• Support engineering and production lot disposition and low yield analysis
• Perform SLT/ATE correlation and characterization

What you’ll bring

• Minimum of 8 years’ related work experience
• Experience in system validation – BMC, CPU, DDR, PCIe, I2C, UART, etc.
• Experience with software programming in Python or C/C++
• Experience of PCBA and board level functional test and debug
• Experience of Linux and knowledge of CPU boot process with UEFI
• Experience with test equipment such as ATE/SLT Handlers
• Experience with yield improvement and test time reduction
• Solid background in HVM production testing, test methodology, silicon process
• Familiar with Arm based server chip architecture and system level test is a plus
• Good understanding of JTAG with OpenOCD experience is a plus

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 8 years’ experience or Master’s degree with 6 years in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field.

*** Working location can be Hsinchu or Taipei***

Our Company

Ampere is designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world’s first cloud native processor. Built for the cloud with a modern 64-bit Arm server-based architecture, Ampere gives customers the freedom to accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications. With industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability, Ampere processors are tailored for the continued growth of cloud and edge computing.

Our Story

Like the scientist behind its name, Ampere employees are innovators. We understand the needs of cloud computing and different software requirements. We are inventing what comes next and looking at everything from the structure of memory and how efficient the system is, to considerations on speed, cost of electricity and ability to cool. Power, size, weight, and cost are driving the technology requirements and the innovation to come. Our world class team of engineers, with depth and expertise in the cloud and semiconductor industries, is not only focused on the development of new semiconductor designs but also building out the first software ecosystem for Arm®-based server processors. Through the Ampere approach to the cloud and edge, we give our customers the freedom to challenge the status quo and accelerate next-generation data centers for the most memory-intensive applications. Given the challenge we have outlined, we are building a culture of entrepreneurs that ensure customers come first, proactively approaching industry challenges in the areas of security, power, and performance, delivering results that matter most.