Princ Associate Engineer, Reliability Lab

What You'll Do

• Lead daily reliability lab operations to ensure safe, accurate, traceable, and on-time test execution.
• Prioritize reliability test requests for qualification, monitoring, change requests, customer support, and line-issue investigations.
• Own equipment uptime through preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, calibration readiness, spare-parts planning, and tool health monitoring.
• Lead troubleshooting, fault recovery, RCA, and CAPA for equipment issues, test setup problems, invalid data, and recurring failures.
• Coordinate vendors for service support, repair activities, parts replacement, escalation, and post-service verification.
• Maintain QMS, audit, EHS, ESD, 6S, calibration, documentation, and lab-control compliance.
• Track and report key equipment and lab KPIs, including uptime, downtime, utilization, MTBF, MTTR, PM completion, calibration completion, and repeat faults.
• Drive continuous improvement to improve equipment availability, test cycle time, maintenance effectiveness, data integrity, and lab productivity.
• Coach and guide engineers, technicians, and new hires on equipment operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, documentation, and safe lab practices.
• Collaborate with Reliability Engineering, Quality, Equipment, Facilities, Manufacturing, Planning, and vendors to resolve issues and improve lab performance.
• Qualifications & Experience Diploma in Electrical, Electronics, Materials Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in semiconductor or reliability lab operations, test equipment, equipment maintenance, or equipment engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with reliability test equipment, environmental test systems, probers, testers, burn-in systems, chambers, ovens, or automated lab/manufacturing tools.
• Proven ability to lead equipment troubleshooting, PM/CM activities, fault recovery, restart verification, and maintenance documentation.
• Experience coordinating vendors, service engineers, external repair providers, spare parts, service visits, quotations, and escalations.
• Working knowledge of reliability testing, qualification support, change requests, line-issue support, QMS, audit readiness, calibration, ESD, 6S, and safety requirements.
• Able to guide technicians, Associate Engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders with clear technical communication and documentation.
• Preferred Experience in an accredited labor regulated manufacturing environment.
• Hands-on exposure to wafer-, package-, or product-level reliability equipment such as probers, testers, SMU systems, Qualitau platforms, burn-in systems, ovens, chambers, HAST/THB, temperature cycling, or pre-conditioning tools.
• Familiarity with JEDEC, ISO/IEC 17025 concepts, ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ESD, calibration, and audit requirements.
• Experience managing vendor scorecards, service reviews, recurring fault escalation, repair quotations, or technical reviews.
• Certification or training in Lean Six Sigma, 8D, RCA, FMEA, equipment maintenance, calibration, ESD, safety, reliability engineering, or maintenance/reliability programs is an advantage.
• We believe having a multicultural workplace enhances productivity, efficiency and innovation whilst our employees feel truly respected, valued and heard.
• As an affirmative employer, all qualified applicants are considered for employment regardless of age, ethnicity, marital status, citizenship, race, religion, political affiliation, gender, sexual orientation and medical and/or physical abilities.
• All offers of employment with GlobalFoundries are conditioned upon the successful completion of background checks , medical screenings as applicable and subject to the respective local laws and regulations.
• Information about our benefits you can find here: https://gf.com/about-us/careers/opportunities-asia