Principal Automotive NPI Product Engineer

4 weeks ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Semtech Full time

Location: Bristol, UK, Canada, or US

Our Team:

Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTC; ) is a leading supplier of high-quality analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. Semtech has a large number of design centres around the world, including three within the UK. The Bristol design centre is focused on optoelectronic ICs primarily targeted to datacoms and adjacent markets. Products include TIAs, laser drivers, optical receivers and fully integrated transceiver IC products from below 1Gbps to over 800Gbps. Within the centre, all functions of product development from initial ideas to full prodization take place, including, marketing, definition, design, layout, product engineering, validation, test engineering, characterization, qualification, applications, etc. Due to the significant innovation and differentiation in the development of our products, Semtech has continued to be the leader in our target markets.

Job Summary:

Searching for experienced semiconductor Principal Automotive NPI Product Engineer with direct experience, and track record, of bringing automotive products through the NPI development process from definition to production release, including all quality, functional safety and qualification related analysis and documentation

Responsibilities:

Driving and owning overall quality and compliance to requirements specification of a product through its lifecycle, from definition to production release

Contribute to the development of automotive product and functional safety processes and workflows and provide input to automotive QMS documentation

Work with functional teams to deliver functional safety related assessments and analysis such as ASIL, fault tree, PPAP, DFMEA, TFMEA & FMEDA and associated documentation

Own understanding of how the material fabrication process issues and variation correlate to both reliability (defects, FIT rate, etc.) and the distribution and sensitivity of individual performance parameters 

Drive and execute on all NPI related activities for manufacturability such as DFT, yield, COP, test coverage, limit setting, guard banding, and test releases both near and far-shore

Enable decisions on the development or sourcing of technologies required for new products such as fab process, packaging, burn-in solutions

Working with test engineering to bring up product and test solutions, both onshore and at OSAT

Capturing and tracking performance against specs through entire lifecycle

Planning and executing on production volume ramps and handover to sustaining team

Drive the resolution of failure analysis, root cause and corrective actions for field returns

Review and optimize coverage, test limits and guard-banding

Perform capability & margin analysis, correlation studies and yield modeling on new products

Co-ordinate manufacturing documentation for production transfer and product maintenance

Minimum Qualifications:

BSc in a relevant engineering subject.

Ten years’ experience working as a semiconductor product engineer, ideally for automotive mixed-signal products.

In depth knowledge of related quality standards and systems such as JEDEC, ISO-26262, AEC-Q100 and their application, as well as statistical analysis techniques such as dPAT and SPC.

Understanding of wafer fabrication processes (ideally automotive), including fab controls and monitors.

Working knowledge of ATE (e.g. Advantest 93k) capabilities and technologies, for both wafer probe and packaged products.

Career Growth Philosophy

At Semtech, we seek innovation and leadership from each and every member of our team. Our goal is to ensure that our talented professionals are equipped with support, resources, and the opportunity to excel. Our pay-for-performance philosophy provides recognition and prestige coupled with a competitive compensation package.



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