Principal Product Quality Engineer (m/f/d) – Silicon Carbide (SiC) (Ingenieur/in - Elektrotechnik)

Job Description

About the role

As Principal Product Quality Engineer SiC, you will drive and design the quality management strategies, including the qualification approach and execution, for next-generation SiC products for industrial and automotive applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams across the entire product development lifecycle (development, manufacturing, quality, test, and applications).

What you will do

- Represent the Quality Management within the development team
- Correlate the SiC failure mechanisms with reliability measures to be implemented into the product quality
- Responsible to define the qualification approach of product developments for SiC products
- Responsible for implementation of quality procedures & quality standards (Nexperia, JEDEC, AEC and customer specific) in the projects
- Responsible for final test specifications and verifications
- Promote quality as value added to internal and external stakeholders
- Support customer requests and complaint handling
- Responsible to identify and address quality gaps in product creation process
- Define qualification requirements & support qualification of manufacturing processes
- Documentation and handling of data in analysis tools and evaluation wrt. Reliability, Yield, FMEA, Customer requests, etc.
- Activities to identify root causes for yield loss or other production problems as well as the implementation of containment and corrective actions
- Responsible for creation of the initial input for PCNs, review and issue, and support follow up activities

What you will need

- PhD or master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Physics or a similar discipline
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar position, experienced in wafer fab and assembly processes preferred, depending on educational credentials
- Knowledge in semiconductor physics as well as in semiconductor applications, preferably in the SiC domain
- Knowledge of international quality standards and policies e.g. AEC-Q101, AQG 324
- Familiar with measurement methods and equipment as well as device testing environments
- Familiar with standard software tools (e.g. Office), problem solving techniques
- High quality mindset and ability to work under pressure
- Fluent spoken and written English skills
- Strong know how in statistical data analysis
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Good team player and willingness to travel
- Assertiveness and demonstrated influencing skills
- Ability to create a trusted network within the organization
- Experience in resolving conflicts and disagreements among others
- Open mindset, which welcomes changes and views problems as opportunities