Internship - Reliability Testing

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Soft errors are bit errors caused by alpha particles from IC materials or by cosmic neutrons. Soft-error rate (SER) is a potential thread for many NXP product types. The SER that a product observes in the field depends, among others, on the flux of alpha particles that is observed by the sensitive circuits. In some package technologies, e.g., wafer-level chip-scale package (WLCSP), the layers in the back-end stack of the die will fully block or attenuate the alpha-particle flux that reaches the die surface. Your role is to develop a tool to analyze and optimize the alpha-particle induced SER in WLCSP products. The tool will be based on an available model for the attenuation of the alpha flux by layers of material.

Your Team

You will be part of the IVN Quality team, which focuses on the quality of NXP’s automotive networking ICs, both during development and after release. Partly, you will be supervised by the Silicon Reliability team, which has in-depth knowledge of silicon-related failure mechanisms.

Your Responsibilities

• Study general soft-error rate documentation.

• Get familiar with our existing model for alpha-particle attenuation.

• Develop a tool in Excel for the alpha-flux analysis of WLCSP products.

• Feed the tool with extracted layouts from real-life designs.

• Demonstrate how the tool can be applied to layout optimization.

• Write an internship report.

• Present the work in a meeting.

What’s in it for you

• A great opportunity to develop your skills (technical, soft skills, communication, etc.)

• Gaining experience in a multinational and diverse environment.

• Possibility to become part of NXP’s Young Professional Talent Pool.

• Working on real product designs which contribute to NXP’s objectives.

Your Profile

• Student at Master of Science level.

• Affinity with Mathematics.

• Experience with Excel – this program will be used to create the tool.

• Good level of English is required (attendance to meetings / presentations with international team, reading and writing of documentation).

Duration

This is a full-time internship (40 hours per week) with a duration of at least 3 months, but possibly longer. Please note that to be considered for an internship/working student assignment, you need to be registered as a student during the entire period.

Creating Secure Connections and Infrastructure for a Smarter World

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) makes products and environments safer, more sustainable, and more secure with innovative connectivity and edge processing solutions for a smarter world. We are in the business of better. Not just better technologies, but better innovations to improve society. As the world leader in secure connectivity and processing solutions for embedded applications, NXP is solving the world’s most complex technology challenges to accelerate business innovation, enhance how we work, and advance how we live. If you are as excited about this opportunity as we are, we kindly invite you to apply. After a screening based on your profile you can be expected to have a video interview with our Talent Acquisition Consultant followed by business.

What Can You Expect?

Development opportunities: We believe that a key component to growing our business is to develop our people. To enable you to grow your career at NXP, we provide you with a mix of learning through on-the-job experiences, learning from industries bests, and learning through education to help you develop your core and professional skills.

Our offices: The Netherlands is home to our global headquarters (Eindhoven) along with two additional sites (Nijmegen, Delft) and includes a diverse team of over 2000 employees with 51 different nationalities focused on R&D, manufacturing, product development, business operations, legal and sales.

Hiring process: Applying only takes a minute! Fill in the online application and share your CV with us. After a positive screening based on your CV you will have an initial video conversation with our Talent Acquisition Consultant followed by several business interviews. Here are some useful tips to help you prepare.

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