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Failure Analysis Engineer - Power & Thermal

AMD· Engineering
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Secaucus, NJ$130.4k - $195.6kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Experienced Failure Analysis Engineer focused on Power and Thermal for GPU accelerators, responsible for PCB triage, board-level fault isolation, and root-cause analysis to improve yield, quality, and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

  • Support internal and external requests to troubleshoot AMD GPU product failures with primary focus on Power and Thermal failure analysis, PCB triage, and board-level failure isolation for continuous yield, quality, and customer support improvements.
  • Develop and execute diagnostics, scope-based measurements, and functional test DOEs to reproduce, characterize, and isolate difficult board-, power-, and thermal-related failures.
  • Develop Automation and tools to run tests and analyze results/logs.
  • Perform structured PCB triage by narrowing failures to the board, component, power rail, layout interaction, or system integration level, and work with the contract manufacturer and internal AMD teams to reproduce failures, isolate root cause, and determine the most effective next steps for debug and corrective action.
  • Use schematics, layout data, lab measurements, and power/thermal behavior knowledge to understand system behavior, trace likely fault paths, form debug hypotheses, and build targeted validation plans that drive efficient fault isolation and high-quality failure analysis.
  • Analyze liquid-cooling performance and thermal dissipation behavior, including flow-related conditions, heat transfer effectiveness, and cooling-path anomalies, to support efficient root cause analysis of Power and Thermal failures.
  • Document all findings into FA database and create a complete failure analysis report for customer consumption as needed.
  • Present findings to key stakeholders, including senior management.
  • Implement ongoing continuous improvements of failure analysis process & techniques and create procedures of the steps to follow.
  • Oversee the set-up of new products and test stations for Failure Analysis operations.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

Skills

Required:Hardware debug fundamentalsPCB triageSchematic reviewDiagnostics and test developmentCommunication and documentation
Nice to have:Liquid-cooling knowledgePython and shell scriptingFirmware/drivers interaction

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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