Principal Product Quality Engineer – Silicon Carbide (SiC)

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