Semiconductor Failure Analysis
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Career Explorer · Electronics & Semiconductor Operations · Failure Analysis
Entry: Failure Analysis EngineerIC ceiling: IC8Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- Failure Analysis Engineer InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate Failure Analysis EngineerIC1
- Failure Analysis EngineerIC2
- Senior Failure Analysis EngineerIC3
- Staff Failure Analysis EngineerIC4
- Principal Failure Analysis EngineerIC5
- Senior Principal Failure Analysis EngineerIC6
- Distinguished Failure Analysis EngineerIC7
- Fellow, Semiconductor Failure AnalysisIC8
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
Source: PROCOMER FTZ benchmark; employer career sites