Principal Product Quality Engineer (m/f/d) – Silicon Carbide - #2780057

Nexperia is a world-class company in semiconductor development and in-house production. A proven global player with an entrepreneurial mentality. At our core is an 13,000+ strong international network with a singular focus. Built on passion and commitment to our work, belief in our goals and a drive to succeed regardless of the challenges we face. We support, reward and challenge individuals equally, in a dynamic and energetic environment.

About The Role

As Principal Product Quality Engineer, you will lead quality and reliability activities throughout the development and qualification of SiC products, ensuring compliance with internal, automotive, industry, and customer-specific quality standards. You will drive qualification strategies, failure and root-cause analysis, manufacturing quality improvements, and corrective actions while acting as the key quality interface for development teams, manufacturing, and customers.

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
  
  
  

This is what we offer:

• Flexible working hours and the possibility of overtime reduction to maintain a work-life balance
• Competitive salary and supplementary voluntary employee benefits
• A wide variety of training courses and career development options
• Numerous further benefits, such as retirement provisions, travel allowance for the HVV public transport ticket, bike leasing, company events, sports and leisure activities, employee discounts, and even more
  
  
  

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D&I Statement

As an equal-opportunity employer, Nexperia values diversity not just because it is the right thing to do but because diverse teams perform better. We are dedicated to being inclusive, and a proof point of this dedication is that we were the main partner of the very first Dutch Paralympic Team NL House during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all, and we consider all applicants fairly, as well as providing a safe work environment and reasonable adjustments where requested.

In addition, we offer our colleagues the possibility to join employee resource groups such as the Pride Network Group or global and local Women's groups. Nexperia is committed to increasing women in management positions to 30% by 2030.