Principal Failure Analysis (FI/FA) Engineer
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate (cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions). Also remove "About You:" maybe treat as Requirements/Qualifications? We need to map content.
Let's parse the posting:
- Intro: "Description Invent the future with us..." This is about company, maybe not needed as a section? Could be part of About the role? Probably not needed as separate heading; we can include as a paragraph before sections? The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones.
Thus we need to decide which sections have content.
From posting:
- About The Role: paragraph describing role. That's content for "About the role". Should be a section.
- What You’ll Achieve: list of bullet-like sentences (though not bullet). Could be considered Responsibilities. So we can have a Responsibilities section with list items.
- About You: includes Bachelor's Degree etc. That's Requirements/Qualifications. Could split into Requirements (education, experience) and Qualifications (preferred). But we can combine? The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we have one "Requirements" section covering both required and preferred? But we have separate headings for Requirements and Qualifications. We could include both if they have content. Let's see: Required: Bachelor's Degree, 8+ years experience, deep understanding, proven hands-on expertise, proficiency, strong analytical skills, excellent communication. Preferred: Master's/PhD, 12+ years experience, strategic/technical leadership, in-depth experience with failure modes on advanced nodes, familiarity with ATE, proficiency in scripting language, experience managing RMAs. So we have content for both.
- What We’ll Offer: includes base pay range, benefits highlights. So we have Pay and Benefits sections. Possibly also Schedule? Not mentioned. So we should not create Schedule section.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay.
We need to output HTML fragment with
headings and appropriate
or
- .
We must not include boilerplate like EEO statement at end. Remove that.
Also remove duplicated lines? Not seeing duplicates.
Now craft content.
About the role: combine the paragraph after "About The Role". It says: "As a Failure Analysis (FI/FA) Engineer at Ampere, you will ensure the quality and reliability of our products. This role will assist in the definition of the FI/FA strategy, building the capabilities, defining the methodologies needed to support Ampere's product portfolio across diverse and demanding markets, as well as performing hands-on fault isolation and management of the PFA activities. This employee will collaborate with a team of engineers in Design, DFT, Product, Test, and Reliability to drive root cause understanding of complex silicon issues. This expertise will directly influence the quality of current products and provide critical feedback to shape the design and manufacturability of future generations."
We'll put that in
.
Responsibilities: from "What You’ll Achieve:" list. We'll convert each sentence to
- . Ensure we keep all details.
List items:
- Develop, own, and execute a comprehensive, forward-looking FI/FA strategy to support Ampere’s product roadmap and expansion into new markets.
- Establish methodologies for failure triage, isolation, and physical analysis to maximize success rates and minimize cycle time.
- Lead complex failure analysis investigations on failures from wafer sort, final test, qualification (HTOL, HAST, etc.), and customer returns (RMAs).
- Perform hands-on electrical fault isolation (EFI) and guide and manage physical failure analysis (PFA) activities, including sample preparation (delayering, deprocessing, cross-sectioning) and imaging (SEM/FIB, TEM, SCM).
- Correlate physical defects to electrical signatures and ATE datalogs to determine the definitive root cause of failure.
- Author and present clear, concise, and data-driven FA reports to technical peers, management, and executive leadership.
- Manage relationships with external FA labs, defining statements of work (SOWs), and ensuring the delivery of high-quality results.
Requirements: from "About You:" required qualifications.
List:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related field.
- 8+ years of direct, hands-on experience in semiconductor failure analysis.
- Deep understanding of modern CMOS device physics and advanced process technologies (FinFET).
- Proven hands-on expertise with a wide range of fault isolation tools.
- Proficiency in physical analysis techniques, including SEM/FIB operation, TEM analysis, and sample preparation (wet/dry etch, CMP).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to logically debug complex issues from system-level symptoms down to a transistor-level defect.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex technical information for a broad audience.
Qualifications: preferred qualifications.
List:
- Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant engineering or science discipline.
- 12+ years of experience in FI/FA, preferably on large-scale SoCs, CPUs, or GPUs.
- Experience in a strategic or technical leadership role, with a proven track record of building FA capabilities or defining methodologies.
- In-depth experience with failure modes on advanced technology nodes (7nm, 5nm, 3nm).
- Familiarity with ATE test platforms and interpreting datalogs.
- Proficiency in a scripting language (e.g., Python, JSL, Perl) for data analysis and automation.
- Experience managing customer returns (RMA) and interacting with quality organizations.
Benefits: from "What We’ll Offer" benefits highlights.
List:
- Premium medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, as well as income protection and a 401K retirement plan.
- Unlimited Flextime and 10+ paid holidays.
- A variety of healthy snacks, energizing espresso, and refreshing drinks.
Also mention "competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, cash long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits." Could be a paragraph before list.
Pay: base pay range.
We need to include the pay info: "The full base pay range for this role is between $154,500 and $231,500, except in the San Francisco Bay Area where the range is between $172,000 and $258,000."
We can put that in
.
We should not include Schedule.
Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like "Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer..." Remove.
Also remove "Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team - we’d love to have you apply!" That's maybe part of intro but could be considered boilerplate? It's a call to action; maybe remove as application instructions? It's not exactly application instruction but could be considered promotional. Safer to remove? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The line "Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team - we’d love to have you apply!" is an application encouragement; could be considered application instruction. Safer to drop it.
Also the initial description "Description Invent the future with us. Ampere is a semiconductor design company..." That's company overview; could be kept as a paragraph before sections? Not a specific section heading. The instruction says use
for section headings; we can have a leading
for prose. It's substantive info about company; we should preserve. So include a
at start.
Thus final HTML:
Description Invent the future with us. Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute. As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications.
About the role
As a Failure Analysis (FI/FA) Engineer at Ampere, you will ensure the quality and reliability of our products. This role will assist in the definition of the FI/FA strategy, building the capabilities, defining the methodologies needed to support Ampere's product portfolio across diverse and demanding markets, as well as performing hands-on fault isolation and management of the PFA activities. This employee will collaborate with a team of engineers in Design, DFT, Product, Test, and Reliability to drive root cause understanding of complex silicon issues. This expertise will directly influence the quality of current products and provide critical feedback to shape the design and manufacturability of future generations.
Responsibilities
- Develop, own, and execute a comprehensive, forward-looking FI/FA strategy to support Ampere’s product roadmap and expansion into new markets.
- Establish methodologies for failure triage, isolation, and physical analysis to maximize success rates and minimize cycle time.
- Lead complex failure analysis investigations on failures from wafer sort, final test, qualification (HTOL, HAST, etc.), and customer returns (RMAs).
- Perform hands-on electrical fault isolation (EFI) and guide and manage physical failure analysis (PFA) activities, including sample preparation (delayering, deprocessing, cross-sectioning) and imaging (SEM/FIB, TEM, SCM).
- Correlate physical defects to electrical signatures and ATE datalogs to determine the definitive root cause of failure.
- Author and present clear, concise, and data-driven FA reports to technical peers, management, and executive leadership.
- Manage relationships with external FA labs, defining statements of work (SOWs), and ensuring the delivery of high-quality results.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related field.
- 8+ years of direct, hands-on experience in semiconductor failure analysis.
- Deep understanding of modern CMOS device physics and advanced process technologies (FinFET).
- Proven hands-on expertise with a wide range of fault isolation tools.
- Proficiency in physical analysis techniques, including SEM/FIB operation, TEM analysis, and sample preparation (wet/dry etch, CMP).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to logically debug complex issues from system-level symptoms down to a transistor-level defect.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex technical information for a broad audience.
Qualifications
- Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant engineering or science discipline.
- 12+ years of experience in FI
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Thus we need to decide which sections have content. From posting: - About The Role: paragraph describing role. That's content for "About the role". Should be a section. - What You’ll Achieve: list of bullet-like sentences (though not bullet). Could be considered Responsibilities. So we can have a Responsibilities section with list items. - About You: includes Bachelor's Degree etc. That's Requirements/Qualifications. Could split into Requirements (education, experience) and Qualifications (preferred). But we can combine? The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we have one "Requirements" section covering both required and preferred? But we have separate headings for Requirements and Qualifications. We could include both if they have content. Let's see: Required: Bachelor's Degree, 8+ years experience, deep understanding, proven hands-on expertise, proficiency, strong analytical skills, excellent communication. Preferred: Master's/PhD, 12+ years experience, strategic/technical leadership, in-depth experience with failure modes on advanced nodes, familiarity with ATE, proficiency in scripting language, experience managing RMAs. So we have content for both. - What We’ll Offer: includes base pay range, benefits highlights. So we have Pay and Benefits sections. Possibly also Schedule? Not mentioned. So we should not create Schedule section. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. We need to output HTML fragment with
headings and appropriate
or
- .
We must not include boilerplate like EEO statement at end. Remove that.
Also remove duplicated lines? Not seeing duplicates.
Now craft content.
About the role: combine the paragraph after "About The Role". It says: "As a Failure Analysis (FI/FA) Engineer at Ampere, you will ensure the quality and reliability of our products. This role will assist in the definition of the FI/FA strategy, building the capabilities, defining the methodologies needed to support Ampere's product portfolio across diverse and demanding markets, as well as performing hands-on fault isolation and management of the PFA activities. This employee will collaborate with a team of engineers in Design, DFT, Product, Test, and Reliability to drive root cause understanding of complex silicon issues. This expertise will directly influence the quality of current products and provide critical feedback to shape the design and manufacturability of future generations."
We'll put that in
. Responsibilities: from "What You’ll Achieve:" list. We'll convert each sentence to
- . Ensure we keep all details.
List items:
- Develop, own, and execute a comprehensive, forward-looking FI/FA strategy to support Ampere’s product roadmap and expansion into new markets.
- Establish methodologies for failure triage, isolation, and physical analysis to maximize success rates and minimize cycle time.
- Lead complex failure analysis investigations on failures from wafer sort, final test, qualification (HTOL, HAST, etc.), and customer returns (RMAs).
- Perform hands-on electrical fault isolation (EFI) and guide and manage physical failure analysis (PFA) activities, including sample preparation (delayering, deprocessing, cross-sectioning) and imaging (SEM/FIB, TEM, SCM).
- Correlate physical defects to electrical signatures and ATE datalogs to determine the definitive root cause of failure.
- Author and present clear, concise, and data-driven FA reports to technical peers, management, and executive leadership.
- Manage relationships with external FA labs, defining statements of work (SOWs), and ensuring the delivery of high-quality results.
Requirements: from "About You:" required qualifications.
List:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related field.
- 8+ years of direct, hands-on experience in semiconductor failure analysis.
- Deep understanding of modern CMOS device physics and advanced process technologies (FinFET).
- Proven hands-on expertise with a wide range of fault isolation tools.
- Proficiency in physical analysis techniques, including SEM/FIB operation, TEM analysis, and sample preparation (wet/dry etch, CMP).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to logically debug complex issues from system-level symptoms down to a transistor-level defect.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex technical information for a broad audience.
Qualifications: preferred qualifications.
List:
- Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant engineering or science discipline.
- 12+ years of experience in FI/FA, preferably on large-scale SoCs, CPUs, or GPUs.
- Experience in a strategic or technical leadership role, with a proven track record of building FA capabilities or defining methodologies.
- In-depth experience with failure modes on advanced technology nodes (7nm, 5nm, 3nm).
- Familiarity with ATE test platforms and interpreting datalogs.
- Proficiency in a scripting language (e.g., Python, JSL, Perl) for data analysis and automation.
- Experience managing customer returns (RMA) and interacting with quality organizations.
Benefits: from "What We’ll Offer" benefits highlights.
List:
- Premium medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, as well as income protection and a 401K retirement plan.
- Unlimited Flextime and 10+ paid holidays.
- A variety of healthy snacks, energizing espresso, and refreshing drinks.
Also mention "competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, cash long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits." Could be a paragraph before list.
Pay: base pay range.
We need to include the pay info: "The full base pay range for this role is between $154,500 and $231,500, except in the San Francisco Bay Area where the range is between $172,000 and $258,000."
We can put that in
. We should not include Schedule. Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like "Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer..." Remove. Also remove "Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team - we’d love to have you apply!" That's maybe part of intro but could be considered boilerplate? It's a call to action; maybe remove as application instructions? It's not exactly application instruction but could be considered promotional. Safer to remove? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The line "Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team - we’d love to have you apply!" is an application encouragement; could be considered application instruction. Safer to drop it. Also the initial description "Description Invent the future with us. Ampere is a semiconductor design company..." That's company overview; could be kept as a paragraph before sections? Not a specific section heading. The instruction says use
for section headings; we can have a leading
for prose. It's substantive info about company; we should preserve. So include a
at start. Thus final HTML:
Description Invent the future with us. Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute. As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications.
About the role
As a Failure Analysis (FI/FA) Engineer at Ampere, you will ensure the quality and reliability of our products. This role will assist in the definition of the FI/FA strategy, building the capabilities, defining the methodologies needed to support Ampere's product portfolio across diverse and demanding markets, as well as performing hands-on fault isolation and management of the PFA activities. This employee will collaborate with a team of engineers in Design, DFT, Product, Test, and Reliability to drive root cause understanding of complex silicon issues. This expertise will directly influence the quality of current products and provide critical feedback to shape the design and manufacturability of future generations.
Responsibilities
- Develop, own, and execute a comprehensive, forward-looking FI/FA strategy to support Ampere’s product roadmap and expansion into new markets.
- Establish methodologies for failure triage, isolation, and physical analysis to maximize success rates and minimize cycle time.
- Lead complex failure analysis investigations on failures from wafer sort, final test, qualification (HTOL, HAST, etc.), and customer returns (RMAs).
- Perform hands-on electrical fault isolation (EFI) and guide and manage physical failure analysis (PFA) activities, including sample preparation (delayering, deprocessing, cross-sectioning) and imaging (SEM/FIB, TEM, SCM).
- Correlate physical defects to electrical signatures and ATE datalogs to determine the definitive root cause of failure.
- Author and present clear, concise, and data-driven FA reports to technical peers, management, and executive leadership.
- Manage relationships with external FA labs, defining statements of work (SOWs), and ensuring the delivery of high-quality results.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related field.
- 8+ years of direct, hands-on experience in semiconductor failure analysis.
- Deep understanding of modern CMOS device physics and advanced process technologies (FinFET).
- Proven hands-on expertise with a wide range of fault isolation tools.
- Proficiency in physical analysis techniques, including SEM/FIB operation, TEM analysis, and sample preparation (wet/dry etch, CMP).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to logically debug complex issues from system-level symptoms down to a transistor-level defect.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex technical information for a broad audience.
Qualifications
- Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant engineering or science discipline.
- 12+ years of experience in FI
- .
We must not include boilerplate like EEO statement at end. Remove that.
Also remove duplicated lines? Not seeing duplicates.
Now craft content.
About the role: combine the paragraph after "About The Role". It says: "As a Failure Analysis (FI/FA) Engineer at Ampere, you will ensure the quality and reliability of our products. This role will assist in the definition of the FI/FA strategy, building the capabilities, defining the methodologies needed to support Ampere's product portfolio across diverse and demanding markets, as well as performing hands-on fault isolation and management of the PFA activities. This employee will collaborate with a team of engineers in Design, DFT, Product, Test, and Reliability to drive root cause understanding of complex silicon issues. This expertise will directly influence the quality of current products and provide critical feedback to shape the design and manufacturability of future generations."
We'll put that in