Sr. Principal GaN/SiC Reliability Engineer (m/f/d)

About the role

As Senior Principal Reliability Engineer GaN/SiC (m/f/d), you will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and durability of our GaN and SiC products, by supporting customers with reliability and lifetime predictions, with product reliability competence, developing reliability testing, analyzing failure mechanisms, optimizing designs and processes, and providing valuable insights to enhance the overall performance and reliability of our technologies.

This is your new job

• Develop and manage the reliability test plan for GaN/SiC products and calculate extrapolated lifetime for given mission profiles
• Enable early identification and characterization of failure mechanisms and link to performance and lifetime limitations through simulation and predictive analytics
• Determining the effect of the different stress factors on the lifetime and plot the failure distribution for each stressor as result of test-to-fail
• Derive lifetime models and drifts prediction for main parameters. Identify fail-in-time estimation (FIT, ppm)
• Setup a lifetime estimation model fitting customers application profile, derive pass/fail criteria
• Enable early identification and characterization of failure mechanisms and link to performance and lifetime limitations through simulation and predictive analytics
• Manage the concept of reliability tests with external partners
• Drive reliability tests and analyze reliability test results data to extract acceleration parameters
• Collaborate closely with design, quality, product engineering, packaging, and process technology teams to drive Design for Reliability (DfR) into product development
• Identify and address reliability gaps and drive reliability improvements activities
• Collaborate with the R&D and Quality teams to develop/improve tests and analysis methods of GaN and SiC products
• Monitor failure analysis investigation to understand the main wear-out failure mechanisms
• Establish and lead external partnerships with universities, research consortia, and industry working groups on Power Semiconductor reliability standards and methods for wide band gap materials

This is you:

• Master's Degree or equivalent in Experimental Physics, Electronics Engineering, or a similar discipline, PhD preferred
• Strong knowledge of GaN and SiC semiconductor physics, or at least of one of the two technologies and the ability to learn the other
• Minimum 7 years of experience of power semiconductor devices, ideally wide band gap and GaN HEMTs
• Understanding of mechanical, electrical and thermal failure modes in semiconductor products, and failure analysis techniques
• Knowledge of international quality standards such as JEDEC, AEC-Q101, AQG 324, reliability test to fail methods, and reliability test equipment
• Experience working within GaN and/or SiC reliability in an industrial environment is highly advantageous,
• Strong knowledge of wafer fab processes. Knowledge of assembly process preferred
• Strong data analysis skills (JMP, MATLAB, etc.) with clear written and verbal communication skills
• High quality mindset, towards product and customers
• Fluent spoken and written English skills
• Strong know how in statistical data analysis
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• 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 your department and colleagues:

You will work in close contact with the an experienced and diverse Product Quality team, high mood and willingness to take action, to improve the business and satisfy our customers.

This is what Nexperia offers

This is a unique position, not existing in Nexperia, but absolutely key for the

Business Group Quality Wide Bandgap (SiC and GaN). You will be the interface between the technology development and the product on field, intercepting customer needs and improving the positioning of SiC and GaN on the field. This role has a high visibility and can produce a strong impact on the business.

Good to know:
You will have to travel EU, <10% of time. Munich or Manchester are a possible location, in this case a travel time of <20% should be considered.

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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.