Sr. Failure Analysis Engineer - Contract - TalentBurst, Inc.

Job Title:- Sr. Failure Analysis Engineer
Location:- Santa Clara, CA (On-Site 5 days/week)
Duration:- 12 months contract (W2 Accepted)

Primary Tasks:

• Drive returned product Failure Analysis, characterizing failures, and escalating issues and trends to the Hardware Quality Engineering team
• Resolve escalated RMA's by determining the hardware root cause of the failure issue.
• Track and report on RMA failure trends by product and cause to the Tech Op's team.
• Track the progress of all in-progress RMA's requiring FA and prioritizing accordingly.
• Monitor process and product corrective actions to ensure changes were in fact effective in improving the product.
• Maintain accurate data entry into SAP and Salesforce database tools.

• Expert technical skills in the manufacturing test environment, both PCBA and box build/system level assemblies.
• Strong Linux system administration knowledge.
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A highly collaborative working style is a must.
• Moderate to fluent in programming languages and tools used for the test environment (Linux OS, Tcl, Expect, Shell Script, Python, Network Switch, Terminal Server, and PDU)
• Ability to apply a working knowledge of server/client and IP based networking hardware architecture, both system and component level, to the test environment.
• Demonstrated ability at hardware debugging to component level and fault isolation is mandatory.
• Familiarity with test engineering principles, methods and industry standard "best practices in a manufacturing test environment including JTAG, boundary scan, 2-corner and 4-corner testing.
• Knowledge of Salesforce, JIRA and SAP desired.
• Ability to read schematics and view board files (Allegro Viewer and Cadence PCB Design)

• SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
• READ SCHEMATICS
• NETWORKING
• PCBA
• LINUX

• Bachelor's Degree

• Minimum BSEE, BSCS, BSCE, or BSET.
• 10+ years related experience required in the computer networking industry.