Senior Principal Engineer, Silicon Device & Key Product Enablement

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We are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership within the Key Product Enablement team, focused on enabling strategically important semiconductor products from development through qualification, transfer, ramp, and high-volume manufacturing.

This role requires deep expertise in semiconductor devices, device physics, silicon technology, and process integration, combined with a strong understanding of how device and process characteristics influence product electrical performance, yield, reliability, and manufacturability.

The Senior Principal Engineer will serve as a technical authority connecting product and design requirements with device capability, silicon technology, fab execution, reliability, and manufacturing strategy.

·   Serve as the technical authority for silicon and device-related aspects of key product enablement.

·   Develop deep understanding of key products, including device architecture, silicon technology, electrical performance, and manufacturing dependencies.

·   Translate product requirements into device, process, modeling, characterization, and manufacturing requirements.

·   Identify critical device and process parameters affecting product performance, matching, yield, and reliability.

·   Provide technical leadership for new device development and integration required to enable next-generation products.

·   Lead technical aspects of product and process transfers across internal fabs and external foundries, ensuring electrical performance, yield, and reliability are maintained.

·   Drive resolution of complex problems spanning device physics, circuit behavior, process technology, yield, reliability, and manufacturing.

·   Analyze device, wafer-level, process, yield, and product-test data to establish relationships between silicon variation and product performance.

·   Identify technology risks and develop mitigation strategies supporting product qualification, capacity expansion, manufacturing transfers, and continuity of supply.

·   Influence device and technology roadmaps, fab strategies, qualification approaches, and technology investment decisions.

·   Mentor senior engineers and strengthen device and silicon expertise across engineering and manufacturing organizations.

·   MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Semiconductor Device Physics, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or a related field.

·   15+ years of relevant semiconductor industry experience.

·   Deep expertise in semiconductor device physics, device characterization, and silicon technology.

·   Strong understanding of the relationship between device characteristics, process variation, and product electrical performance.

·   Extensive knowledge of wafer fabrication, process integration, semiconductor manufacturing, and product qualification.

·   Demonstrated experience solving complex technical problems across device, product, process, yield, and reliability domains.

·   Experience supporting technology development, product transfers, fab or foundry qualification, or manufacturing ramps.

·   Strong analytical, technical leadership, and cross-functional communication skills.

·   Broad device expertise across technologies such as CMOS, bipolar or BiCMOS, JFET, high-voltage devices, SiGe, precision passives, and other specialty analog technologies.

·   Experience with analog, mixed-signal, precision, power, RF, or other high-performance semiconductor products.

·   Experience developing or enabling products requiring new devices, device models, test structures, or process capabilities.

·   Experience transferring products or technologies between internal fabs and external foundries.

·   Strong understanding of semiconductor reliability, qualification, device modeling, and failure mechanisms.

·   Demonstrated technical innovation and leadership across global engineering and manufacturing organizations.

·   Recognized organization-wide technical authority in semiconductor devices, silicon technology, and product enablement.

·   Defines technical direction for complex, strategically important product and technology initiatives.

·   Shapes device and technology roadmaps based on future product and manufacturing requirements.

·   Influences senior-level decisions on technology selection, device development, fab strategy, qualification, and investment.

·   Resolves highly complex technical problems spanning multiple engineering disciplines and organizations.

·   Establishes technical methodologies and best practices for product-to-device-to-process understanding.

·   Mentors Principal Engineers and other senior technical contributors.

·   Operates with exceptional autonomy, technical judgment, influence, and accountability.

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• Actual wage offered may vary depending on work location, experience, education, training, external market data, internal pay equity, or other bona fide factors.

• This position qualifies for a discretionary performance-based bonus which is based on personal and company factors.

• This position includes medical, vision and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation, holidays, and sick time, and other benefits.