Principal Product Development Engineer

POSITION OVERVIEW:

This role is responsible for the design, development, qualification, and release of new Power MOSFET products. This role will be carried out either as a leader or member of a cross functional team, or as an individual, ensuring that new products are released to customer / market requirements and to appropriate quality standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead project teams on activities towards the release of new product families, complex products or technology platforms to timelines defined within project plans.
• Ensure that new product releases meet manufacturability, reliability, customer and market requirements in collaboration with product marketing, process development, assembly and industrial functions
• Assist the Product groups by providing technical support with respect to specification and justification of new product developments, answering specific customer technical enquiries and complaints
• Provide project management and/or technical expertise for the team as consultant across one or many project(s)
• Develop appropriate levels of knowledge in associated areas of product development work, namely the product release process, systems, project management, product specification, simulation and design.
  

SKILLS /COMPETENCIES:

Hard Skills:

• Expert understanding of:
• electrical operation of Power MOSFETs
• Power MOSFET device structure
• fab processes
• packaging flow
• design process for new products
• reliability methods, and Failure Modes
• Design of Experiments
• Device simulation tools
• Data analysis and production of clear technical reports
• Characterization
  

Soft Skills:

• Planning, organising and controlling projects adhering to plans and budgets, as well as reporting on progress
• Leadership, and role model example to more junior engineers
• Collaboration with others, either in immediate team or outside R&D
• Clear communication of progress
• Time-planning and multi-tasking
• Customer communications, where necessary
• Mentoring of junior engineers
• Flexible and proactive approach
• Considered experienced enough in their field to handle non-standard situations
  

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

• Experience required: Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Physics or similar.
• 8 years’ experience in semiconductors or related field
  

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

KPIs – Deliverables and Process:

• Delivery of customer requirements
• Time to release products / platforms

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Output (Deliverables):

• Products released
• Product and Project documentation
• Leadership and consultancy
  
  

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