Power Semiconductor Product Engineering Manager

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.
Newport
1 week ago
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Vishay manufactures one of the world's largest portfolios of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components that are essential to innovative designs in the automotive, industrial, computing, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. We help the world's most in-demand technologies come to life. Every day our products touch your life and the lives of people across the world, though you likely do not know it. Come join us and help us buildThe DNA of tech.


This position will be located in Newport, South Wales, U.K.


You will work together with a talented staff of engineering professionals to develop and enable innovative wide bandgap semiconductor technology to realize the next generations of Vishay’s proprietary power device product portfolio.


Responsibilities

  • Lead the product engineering team and collaborate with technology and product development teams to manufacturing release.
  • Characterization of new product performance prior to manufacturing release
  • Development of engineering database.
  • Development and monitoring of Statistical Process Control systems for production products.
  • Disposition of Wafer sort and Final test
  • Yield Enhancement
  • Support engineering teams with New Products Introduction.
  • Change control relating to products in production.
  • Collaborate with reliability / quality team for analysis of RMA Customer returns
  • Collaboration both with our manufacturing partners. Build and maintain lasting relationships in international and cross-functional project teams.


Knowledge And Experience You'll Need

  • A PhD or Master’s degree in semiconductor device/material physics or related fields.
  • At least 10 years of experience in the field of power semiconductors.
  • Detailed knowledge of semiconductor product life cycle, device characterization, device qualification, pre-production support, release to volume production and product sustenance.
  • Strong data analytical skills in the evaluation and characterization of power semiconductors. You will approach tasks in a logic-based way
  • Experience working with SiC or other Wide-bandgap semiconductor devices strongly desired
  • Yield analysis and circuit debug experience with 6-sigma quality practices is a plus
  • comprehensive, demonstrable background in power semiconductor materials / semiconductor device physics, and / fabrication process.


Vishay offers a comprehensive suite of benefit programs and other resources designed to help you achieve your personal and professional goals. With us, you'll experience unique career paths, an open and collaborative culture, a stable business that will be there for you, and opportunities to work globally and locally. Do you have the skills we need? Are you ready to power your career as you power the world?If so, apply today.

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