Staff Engineer, Sustaining Test

pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor’s 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission—to enhance Murata’s world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi’s product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi’s team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.

Job Summary

The Staff Engineer, Sustaining Test performs a variety of assignments while supporting global sustaining test and high-volume manufacturing.  The Staff Engineer owns, improves, and sustains automated probe and final test solutions across proprietary and commercial ATE platforms. This position works closely with Product Engineering, Test Engineering, Quality, and Production teams.

The selected candidate will have an advanced understanding in semiconductor test and wafer probe methods and can generate design of experiments, analyze data, and use results to drive engineering decisions. The Staff Engineer operates with minimal guidance, determines methods and procedures, and thrives in fast-paced environment requiring strong organization, innovation, and attention to detail.  

Roles & Responsibilities

This position has responsibility for:

• Serving as a liaison between new test development and manufacturing teams to facilitate new product introduction and sustain existing products.
• Coordinating with internal and offshore production test facilities to establish, qualify, and sustain ATE solutions.
• Ensuring existing methods and procedures are followed and contributing ideas for continuous improvement.
• Rapidly mastering new automated testers and helping standardize associated methods and best practices.
• Providing troubleshooting support, recurring problem detection, root cause analysis, and driving resolution of manufacturing test issues.
• Reviewing production test methods and procedures, identifying improvement opportunities, and leading crossfunctional actions to implement changes.

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills)

• Typically 6–8+ years of relevant experience in sustaining test for high‑volume semiconductor production.
• Demonstrated experience in new product introduction and sustaining test solutions for wafer probe and/or packaged ICs.
• Proficient in C++ for test program development/maintenance.
• Experience with the Teradyne Eagle 364 tester or a similar system
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration and teamwork skills.
• Ability to apply engineering methods, perform statistical data analysis, and draw conclusions from complex production data.
• Knowledge of analog and digital circuits and test concepts.
• Experience with lab test equipment (DMMs, oscilloscopes).
• Demonstrated ability to solve PMIC debug and measurement challenges.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven analytical and problemsolving skills; ability to perform in a fastpaced production environment.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

pSemi Corporation supports a diverse workforce and is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees. pSemi does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under Vehicle Code section 12801.9), ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally-protected medical condition, military or veteran status (including “protected veterans” under applicable affirmative action laws), marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws applicable to the Company. pSemi also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an employee or applicant has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

Note: The Peregrine Semiconductor name, Peregrine Semiconductor logo and UltraCMOS are registered trademarks and the pSemi name, pSemi logo, HaRP and DuNE are trademarks of pSemi Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. pSemi products are protected under one or more of the following U.S. Patents: http://patents.psemi.com