R&D Engineer

: ESD , HAST , HTOL , JEDEC , OSAT , Semiconductor

• : 100% Remote
• , 100% Remote

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Expected 12 month contract with possible extension

Pay Rate: $50-53/hr the pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

• Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA
• 401(k)
• Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws

Client is seeking an experienced Power & Interface IC Supply Chain R&D Engineer to serve as the technical owner of our power management and interface IC supply base. In this fully remote U.S. role, you will develop, qualify, and manage relationships with power and interface IC suppliers and their OSAT partners to ensure capacity, quality, and reliability objectives are met for the components that power and connect Client’s data-center SSDs.

You will own the component qualification matrix and technical qualification gates, and act as Client’s trusted escalation partner to the SQE organization when cross-functional expertise is needed— coordinating rapid containment, 8D root-cause analysis, and re-qualification with supplier and OSAT process teams. You will champion DFM and design-for-reliability feedback loops between Client’s hardware and package design teams and supplier applications/process organizations.

Success requires deep technical fluency in analog and mixed-signal IC technology, power delivery, high-speed interface signaling, and component qualification flows, along with a strong dual-sourcing and risk-mitigation mindset. You will represent power and interface IC supply chain in NPI program reviews and interface routinely with Hardware Design Engineering, Signal/Power Integrity, Package Engineering, Quality, Logistics, and supplier/OSAT counterparts.

• Fully remote, home-based role open to candidates located anywhere in the United States. A dedicated home office with reliable high-speed internet is expected; proximity to a major airport is preferred to support travel.
• Travel: ~20%, including periodic domestic travel to Client HQ (Rancho Cordova, CA) for NPI and program reviews, plus international travel to IC suppliers and OSAT partners in Taiwan, Korea, and Japan for qualification builds, capacity reviews, technical reviews, and excursion containment.
• Working hours:
  
  Flexible, anchored to the candidate’s U.S. time zone, with flexibility expected for periodic early-morning or late-evening syncs with suppliers, OSATs, and SK hynix stakeholders across Asia time zones.
• Must have unrestricted legal right to work in the United States. This role may be subject to U.S. export-control requirements; certain positions require the ability to access technology controlled under U.S. export regulations.

• Develop, qualify, and manage a base of power and interface IC suppliers and their OSAT partners to ensure technical capacity, quality, and reliability targets are met.
• Establish and maintain technical supplier scorecards tracking OTD, quality (PPM/DPPM), yield, reliability, and responsiveness.
• Drive continuous-improvement initiatives with strategic suppliers and OSATs to improve yield and cycle time.
• Manage dual-source and second-source strategies to mitigate single-source risk and ensure component supply resilience.

• Coordinate technical reviews between Client hardware/package design teams and supplier applications and process teams; manage device selection, process/technology, and package/revision trade-offs against reliability, yield, and schedule.

• Partner with Supplier Quality Engineering on power and interface IC excursions: containment, 8D root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and re-qualification with supplier and OSAT process teams.
• Champion DFM and design-for-reliability feedback loops between suppliers/OSATs and Client hardware and package design teams.

• Represent power and interface IC supply chain in NPI program reviews.
• Interface routinely with Hardware Design Engineering, Signal/Power Integrity,…