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Engineer - Silicon Validation

This position is for a Product & IP Test Engineer located at GLOBALFOUNDRIES state of the art facility in Malta. The successful candidate will develop, debug and validate functional test processes and perform functional characterization, during the ramp up of advanced technology nodes on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ strategic roadmap. The candidate will support Product and IP Test for these technologies in Fab 8 in Malta NY. Support of multiple IP and products in a foundry environment will be required.


  • This position will support the characterization and validation of internal or 3rd party IP and the development of test code to support the technology qualification process within a foundry environment.
  • Test program development, fixture design, test debug, characterization and validation on silicon.
  • Develop, optimize and sustain test content used in technology qualification, reference design and IP characterization, validation.
  • The candidate will own and drive Product or IP Test Signals analysis back to responsible teams.
  • Design for Test (DFT) owner, to achieve required test coverage, tester capacity and test time goals. Drive test areas to improve test cell up time, data quality, cost, cycle time, and manufacturing robustness.
  • Develop data analysis methodologies to determine root cause of circuit design, yield limitation, parametric performance, defect and functional signals. Provide Silicon Validation reporting across PVT corners, as needed.
  • Test data analysis, including corner lots, voltage and temperature characterization with JMP.
  • Project management, planning for first silicon bring-up, test hardware vendor and offshore test resource coordinates, test program release and revision control, test operation procedure, hardware setup and program documentation. Peer leadership and mentoring skills.
  • Candidates will be required to work within a cross functional environment – including process integration, design, advanced process modules, quality, reliability, failure analysis and customer engineering organizations to meet all customer technology requirements, cost and revenue goals.
  • Perform all activities in safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs