Senior/Staff Consulting Engineer

About the role

PDF Solutions is seeking a Consultant Engineer to utilize our innovative e-beam systems for enhancing yield in state-of-the-art 300mm semiconductor fabs. The role requires a highly motivated, self-driven team player with strong communication skills and the ability to deliver quality results on time in a dynamic, multi-discipline, and highly productive environment.

Responsibilities

• Analysis of PDF eProbe (PDF’s innovative e-beam system) output to ensure tool readout maximizes customer benefit in yield improvement.
• RD Experiments to retarget defects of interest, strengthen signals, reduce noise, or improve throughput.
• Analysis dataflow creation for repeated and consistent readout.
• Influence customers to analyze eProbe readouts for yield improvement purposes.

Requirements

• Ability to use layout edit or review tools, such as Cadence ICFB, KLayout, or similar.
• Familiarity with analysis platforms, such as JMP, Spotfire, or similar.
• Experience working with semiconductor fail modes (opens or shorts) in both FEOL and BEOL steps.
• Basic device physics understanding, such as P-N junction, transistor operation, CMOS integration.
• Ability to drive experiments rapidly and create high-quality analysis reports to summarize findings.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working with inspection tools, including optical, voltage-contrast, or spectroscopy.
• Experience reading or interpreting circuit schematics, GDS/Oasis layouts, or PFA cross-sections.
• Python or other programming experience (Java, C#, C++, Ruby, Perl, etc.).
• Experience working with customers in a technical setting and responding promptly with high-standard results.

Pay

USD $130,000.00 - USD $200,000.00 per year.