Senior Principal Applications Engineer – Technical Lead

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🔥 12 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $136.2k - $178.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💻 Application Engineer

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Formfactor

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📚 Education

🎯 Recruiter

Consulting • Education • Recruitment

Formfactor is a product design school based in Russia that offers training programs for aspiring and experienced designers, including job-placement (employment guarantee) and skills-development tracks. The organization runs career consultations, skills assessments, tailored learning programs, and has a large community of designers. Their services are aimed at individuals seeking to start or advance a career in product design.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary technical advisor for strategic semiconductor customers • Build trusted relationships with customer engineering, manufacturing, operations, and executive teams • Lead customer engagements from evaluation through qualification, production release, and High Volume Manufacturing ramp • Conduct on-site customer technical reviews, production readiness reviews, roadmap discussions, and executive briefings • Present FormFactor’s technology roadmap, product capabilities, and application solutions • Support product demonstrations, benchmarking, acceptance testing, and customer evaluations • Partner with customers to improve yield, throughput, measurement accuracy, and manufacturing productivity • Act as the senior technical escalation point for business-critical customer issues • Develop and deploy advanced application methodologies for semiconductor probe and test solutions • Support electrical, parametric, RF, optical, photonics, and high-speed device characterization • Drive adoption of new products and advanced technologies • Develop technical documentation, application notes, best practices, and customer training materials • Analyze customer application challenges and recommend optimized solutions • Support beta evaluations, technology transfers, qualification programs, and production ramps • Serve as a subject matter expert in semiconductor test, wafer probing, and device characterization • Lead complex root cause investigations involving product, process, applications, and manufacturing issues • Provide technical leadership across Applications, Engineering, Product Management, Service, and Manufacturing teams • Mentor and coach Applications Engineers and other technical team members • Establish best practices and drive knowledge sharing across global organizations • Influence technical direction and future customer solutions • Lead cross-functional teams in dynamic and ambiguous situations • Drive clarity, accountability, and execution during customer escalations and critical business situations • Balance customer requirements, business priorities, and technical constraints • Serve as the Voice of Customer to Product Management and Engineering • Identify emerging technology trends and customer requirements • Influence product roadmaps through customer feedback and market insights • Support strategic growth initiatives in Silicon Photonics, Co-Packaged Optics, AI/HPC, Foundry, Memory, and Advanced Packaging markets • Assist Sales and Business Development teams with technical strategy and growth opportunities

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience • Experience in semiconductor test, semiconductor capital equipment, probe card technologies, wafer probe systems, device characterization, or related fields • Demonstrated success supporting strategic semiconductor customers in both development and production environments • Proven ability to lead complex technical engagements and customer escalations • Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively at both engineering and executive levels • Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required • Technical experience with Automated Test Equipment (ATE), wafer probe systems, probe cards, semiconductor test, device characterization, parametric test, wafer sort, production test, RF and microwave measurements, high-speed digital testing, signal integrity, silicon photonics, optical characterization, Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), advanced packaging, heterogeneous integration, yield improvement, product qualification, New Product Introduction (NPI), failure analysis, and High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) • Skills including data analytics, JMP Scripting Language (JSL), MATLAB, Python, RF testing, root cause analysis, semiconductor manufacturing, semiconductor testers, signal integrity, silicon photonics, strategic customer management, and technical leadership

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Disability coverage • 401(k) with company match • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) • Paid time off • Quarterly profit-sharing bonuses • Flexible spending or savings accounts