Failure Analysis Engineer

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly analytical Failure Analysis Engineer to support the investigation of hardware failures in rack systems, server platforms, and data center infrastructure products.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform failure isolation at the component, subsystem, and rack level, as well as root cause analysis on failures involving server systems, rack-level assemblies, storage platforms, networking hardware, and associated components.
• Investigate failures from manufacturing, system integration, reliability testing, customer returns (RMA), and field deployments.
• Analyze electrical, mechanical, thermal, and firmware-related failures using structured troubleshooting methodologies.
• Utilize laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, power analyzers, thermal cameras, logic analyzers, X-ray systems, optical microscopes, and environmental test equipment.
• Conduct board-level debugging of server motherboards, backplanes, power distribution boards (PDBs), power supplies, GPU modules, CPUs, DIMMs, NICs, storage devices, and PCIe components.
• Work closely with Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Reliability, Supplier Quality, Test Engineering, and Operations to identify corrective actions.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities using 8D, 5-Why, Fishbone Diagram, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Develop and publish detailed failure analysis reports, including technical findings, corrective actions, and preventive recommendations.
• Support reliability qualification testing, HALT/HASS, thermal validation, vibration testing, and environmental stress testing.
• Identify recurring failure trends through statistical analysis and recommend design or process improvements.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to improve product reliability and manufacturing yield.
• Collaborate with suppliers to investigate component-level failures and improve incoming material quality.
• Support customer escalations by providing technical expertise during failure investigations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in failure analysis, hardware validation, quality engineering, reliability engineering, or manufacturing engineering.
• Experience supporting enterprise servers, rack systems, storage platforms, networking equipment, or data center infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of server architecture including: CPUs, GPUs, Memory (DDR4/DDR5), PCIe architecture, NVMe storage, Ethernet networking, BMC/IPMI management and Power distribution systems.
• Experience troubleshooting complex hardware failures at the system and board level.
• Knowledge of schematic review and hardware debugging techniques.
• Ability to interpret manufacturing and test logs to identify failure mechanisms.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and technical documentation skills.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Data-driven decision making
• Technical writing and presentation
• Continuous improvement mindset

Compensation

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $142,000-$169,000 annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, qualifications, and business needs.