Senior Staff Product Definition Engineer for Automotive SiC Chips and Discrete Product for Inverter (f/m/div)

Infineon Technologies AG; München; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Infineon Technologies AG in Germany seeks a Product Definition Engineer (expert application engineer) to define tomorrow’s Automotive High-Voltage SiC chips and discrete products for traction inverters. You will translate customer needs into clear requirements, and collaborate with design teams to demonstrate the value of innovations at system level.

Frequent customer interaction and a focus on embedding and EndoPack Cell portfolio will shape your day-to-day work, with cross-functional

Qualifications

• University degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics or Physics.
• Several years of experience in Application Engineering or Technical Marketing.
• Expertise in automotive traction inverter systems and cross-functional projects.
• Customer-centric mindset and effective cross-cultural collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of product requirements for next-generation automotive high-voltage SiC products.
• Act as a trusted technical interface to customers’ engineers during system design and RFQ/RFI support.
• Collaborate with concept, technology and product development teams to assess feasibility and trade-offs.
• Lead product development projects across functions to bring new solutions to market.
• Lead benchmarking and system-level studies to demonstrate product benefits to customers.
• Validate prototypes and product models in customer applications and guide design-in and certification.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Power Electronics

Physics

Application Engineering

Technical Marketing

System development

Power semiconductors

Customer-centric thinking

Communication skills

English

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Job description

#WeAreIn for jobs that impact everyone's life. What if your ideas could help shape the next generation of electric mobility? As a Product Definition Engineer (expert application engineer), you will combine deep technical expertise with customer insight to define tomorrow’s Automotive High-Voltage SiC Chip and Discrete Products for traction inverters. You will have a focus on advanced SiC Chip Embedding, our EndoPackTM Cell portfolio, for traction inverter, a revolutionary new technology to build a power module. You will have the joy to directly work together with our customer’s system design experts, visiting them frequently. At the intersection of customers, system engineering, and product development, you will influence future product concepts, translate application needs into clear requirements, and demonstrate the value of innovative solutions at system level. Are you in?

Your role

Key responsibilities in your new role

• Take ownership of product requirements for next-generation automotive high-voltage SiC products, translating customer needs, application insights, and system assumptions into a clear direction for development
• Serve as a trusted technical expert interface to customers’ expert engineers throughout the development of their system design, supporting RFQs and RFIs, aligning requirements and needs with them, and supporting them with the design-in of your products
• Internally you partner with concept, technology, and product-development experts to assess feasibility, review development documentation, and turn complex trade-offs into innovative, customer-relevant product concepts
• Play a key role in product development projects, collaborating across product and technology development, quality, and other global functions to bring new solutions from concept to market
• Lead benchmarking and system-level performance studies, including competitive analyses and application investigations, to make the benefits of distinctive product features tangible for customers
• Validate functional prototypes and product models in customer applications, contribute to application FMEAs, and guide colleagues in evaluating functionality and certification against relevant standards

Your profile

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

• University degree in a relevant technical discipline with a standard program duration of more than four years for example Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics or Physics
• Several years of relevant professional experience in Application engineering, Technical Marketing, e.g. as a system development engineer, or an application engineer in a power semiconductor company
• Specific expertise in automotive traction inverter systems, power semiconductors and cross-function project work
• Gathered experience in customer centric thinking, and acting across multiple cultures, managing complex technical customer communication during an early design-in phase of new power products, and new technologies
• Acted as passionate promoter of specific benefits of new products having the customer perspective in mind
• Advanced communication skills combined with a strong team-player and customer-first mindset
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English, clear, convincing, and effective across customer and internal audiences

#WeAreIn for driving decarbonization and digitalization. As a global leader in semiconductor solutions in power systems and IoT, Infineon enables game-changing solutions for green and efficient energy, clean and safe mobility, as well as smart and secure IoT. Together, we drive innovation and customer success, while caring for our people and empowering them to reach ambitious goals. Be a part of making life easier, safer and greener. Are you in? We are on a journey to create the best Infineon for everyone. We strive to create the best Infineon for everyone by embracing diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants for who they are and offer a workplace built on trust, openness, respect and equal opportunity. Our hiring decisions are based on skills and experience. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Please let your recruiter know if you need any accommodations during the interview process. Learn more about our various contact channels and about Diversity & Inclusion at Infineon.