Senior ATE Dev Engineer- Silicon RF ATE, Project Kuiper Silicon Team id-7531

April 29, 2025

Description

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to un-served and under-served communities around the world.

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As Senior ATE Development Engineer in the Silicon & Systems team, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design, and develop innovative production software solutions for products developed for and deployed in Kuiper phased array antennas in LEO satellites and ground terminal products. You will work closely with internal and third-party vendors to develop ATE test programs and tools to support high-volume production test of mm-wave ICs, and generate data analytics / insights into product / system performance and metrics to meet our customers’ needs.

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Design and develop scalable, reusable ATE software libraries that are device-agnostic to support multiple product variants.
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Create modular, reusable, and scalable test libraries for mm-wave System-on-Chips (SoCs) on ATE platforms such as Teradyne and Advantest.
Focus on test time reduction while maintaining data integrity and test coverage.
Define work flows and mechanisms for ATE software version control and release.
Support global production teams with troubleshooting, updates, and deployment.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in electrical/communications engineering or related field.
5 or more years of employment in silicon RF Test or RF Product Engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

Masters or PhD degree in Electrical / Communications Engineering or related field.
Excellent oral and written communications skills.
7+ years of hands-on experience in mm-wave or RF validation engineering of communications systems, preferably in high-volume consumer devices manufacturing
Knowledgeable in production control processes, statistical analysis platforms (Galaxy, Spotfire, JMP or similar), data interpretation/analysis, Cp/Cpk, and bench/tester correlation.
New product transition from design phase, through qualification and into high volume manufacturing environment.
Silicon manufacturing concepts like GR&R, MBIST, and ATPG
Test data outputs such as STDFs from UFLEX and V93K ATEs.
Working knowledge of semiconductor product development and production flow.
Test automation of bench equipment for digital electronics (e.g. pattern generators, logic analyzers) and RF electronics (e.g. spectrum analyzers, VNAs).

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