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Senior Product Quality Engineer, High Bandwidth Memory

Micron

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Job Overview:

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

In the Global Quality team, you will be a guardian of Micron’s brand, you will innovate creative solutions to prevent problems with product performance before they occur and minimize the impact when they do! You’ll also be on the frontlines of meaningful customer issues. In all you do, you’ll demonstrate your technical knowledge and creativity to deliver efficient and effective solutions.

As a Senior Engineer in Product Quality and Reliability Assurance (PQRA), you will support reliability qualification and quality monitoring of High Bandwidth Memory products (HBM), help develop product reliability methodologies, and respond to product deviations as they pertain to quality and reliability. You will establish and implement requirements, specifications and metrics such as Defects per Million (DPM), Failure in Time (FIT), and Lifetime. In this role, you will work with multi-functional Engineering teams to ensure product reliability methods are established and followed, perform risk assessments, and provide support for manufacturing teams regarding reliability issues. In this dynamic role, you will have opportunities to gain new product knowledge on an ongoing basis!

You will:

Conduct New Product Qualifications

  • Define High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) qualification requirements
  • Comprehend failures and failure rate within the scope of the qualification
  • Perform risk assessment at all decision points within the qualification cycle
  • Review qualification data and sign off that Qual requirements have been met
  • Issue internal product release notifications for Qual

Develop Product Reliability Methodology, Monitors, Metrics, and Specifications

  • Cooperatively develop and establish reliability targets and standards with technology development and product engineering teams
  • Comprehend new wafer fab and packaging technologies to identify and mitigate product reliability issues
  • Develop and improve product reliability tests to assess new DRAM failure mechanisms
  • Coordinate and drive vital specification improvements for existing products

Establish and Implement Quality Requirements

  • Establish and review ongoing product Quality Metrics
  • Assess deviations for product quality and reliability risks
  • Define evaluation necessary to mitigate risks
  • Review and support process Excursion Analysis
  • Communicate violations to defined release/acceptance criteria
  • Communicate issues and corrective actions across all Micron products

Provide Internal Technical Support for Customer Support Teams

  • Assist RMA Team with detailed analysis of returned material
  • Investigate manufacturing history and identify issues related to customer failure signature
  • Perform additional data collection as needed and per customer request
  • Develop Reliability Process Monitor (RPM) plans
  • Assist with necessary corrective actions at the manufacturing level
  • Comprehend field failure rates relative to internal failure rates

Education:

  • M.S. in EE or related field of study

Required Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with semiconductor wafer fabrication, advanced packaging, and semiconductor device physics.
  • 3 years or engineering experience in one of the following areas:
  • Product Engineering
  • Product Quality and Reliability
  • Process Integration
  • Product Yield Enhancement

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
  • Familiarity with Perl, C++, Python, HTML, CGI, or Java

As a world leader in the semiconductor industry, Micron is dedicated to your personal wellbeing and professional growth. Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future. We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget. Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave. Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays. For additional information regarding the Benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on micron.com/careers/benefits.

Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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