Principal Product Quality Engineer (m/f/d) – 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