Senior NPI Product Engineer

semtech; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Semtech’s NPI Product Engineering team in Bristol leads new product development from concept to high-volume manufacturing, ensuring conformance to specs and seamless production transfer. The role blends cross-functional collaboration across design, validation, test, quality, and operations to deliver best-in-class products.

You will drive Design for Manufacturability and Testability, support ATE program development, and perform rigorous data analysis to improve yield and reliability across PVT

Qualifications

• BSc in Electrical Engineering or related field with 8+ years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead NPI activities from concept to product release and transfer to production.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure on-time product development and delivery.
• Prepare NPI product release and OSAT documentation for production transfer and product maintenance.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance.
• Define DfM/DfT requirements and support test engineers in developing ATE programs.
• Lead product characterization, correlation and release activities with datasheet validation.
• Plan and execute DOE to optimize product performance, yield, and test time.
• Drive continuous improvement in manufacturing quality and cost.

Skills

NPI program leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

DfM/DFT

DOE

Data analysis

Yield optimization

ATE test platforms

High-speed interconnect knowledge

JEDEC/Mil quality

Statistical analysis tools

Education

BSc in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Advantest

Teradyne

Excel

JMP

Galaxy

dataConductor

Job description

Location: Bristol, UK (St James Court B)

Hybrid Model: 4 days in office (Monday - Thursday)

Our Team:

At Semtech, the New Product Introduction (NPI) Product Engineering team is the central force behind every product we bring to market.

The team takes full ownership of new product development, guiding each program from concept through to high-volume manufacturing and end-of-life, with a focus on quality, precision, and execution.

Working across Design, Test, Validation, Quality, Reliability, Applications, and Operations, our engineers define testability requirements, drive comprehensive characterisation across PVT, ensure robust ATE-to-bench correlation, optimise yield and test cost, and enable seamless transfer into production.

As demand for high-performance optical and analog/mixed-signal IC solutions continues to grow, we are strengthening our NPI capability to ensure we consistently deliver best-in-class product performance, manufacturability, and customer value.

Responsibilities

1. NPI Program Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration (25%)
   • Lead and drive all NPI activities from product concept through final product release while ensuring product conformance to specifications, and seamless transfer to full-volume manufacturing
   • Collaborate with internal cross-functional teams including Project Lead, Design, Marketing, Validation, Test Engineering, Characterization, Quality & Reliability, Applications Engineering and Operations to ensure successful product development and delivery
   • Actively participate in the milestone reviews of NPI program logistics, timelines, and milestones, providing regular updates to management and stakeholders
   • Prepare all NPI product release and OSAT related manufacturing documentations for production transfer and product maintenance
   • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior product engineers
2. Design for Testability/Manufacturability (35%)
   • Lead team to define Design for Manufacturability (DfM) and Design for Testability (DfT) requirements for NPI products and provide feedback to design for implementation to ensure comprehensive and efficient production test coverage
   • Support test engineers in the development, implementation, verification and optimization of ATE test programs ensuring the testability/manufacturability features are considered and implemented, and that test coverage and quality is achieved while maintaining accurate cost models
   • Lead product characterization, correlation and release activities, ensuring all datasheet specifications are validated and met
3. Characterization, Data Analysis & Yield Optimization (30%)
   • Develop comprehensive product characterization plans encompassing both wafer-level and bench characterization tests, ensuring thorough test coverage across all product specifications and operating conditions
   • Conduct rigorous data analysis of ATE and bench characterization results across process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations, including ATE-to-bench correlation studies, PCM data analysis, process capability analysis to ensure product conformance to specifications and yield modeling for new products
   • Plan and execute Design of Experiments (DOE) to optimize product performance, drive yield analysis, test time reduction, and test optimization efforts - identifying and resolving yield limiters in close collaboration with Design, Test, Quality, and Foundry Process teams
   • Contribute to product validation and reliability qualification plans working closely with Test, Characterization, Validation, and Reliability Engineering teams to ensure alignment and successful execution
4. Manufacturing Quality, Failure Analysis & Continuous Improvement (10%)
   • Work with foundry process/packaging engineering in the resolution of problems that occur during wafer fabrication, packaging, die sort and final package test processes
   • Drive the resolution of failure analysis, root cause and corrective actions for field returns
   • Monitor and maintain product life cycle, identifying opportunities for cost reduction and continuous improvement

Minimum Qualifications:

• BSc in Electrical Engineering or related field and a minimum of 8 years relevant work experience.
• Experience in semi-conductor technology, product, test and/or design engineering.
• Experience with quality systems including corrective actions, 8D reports, non-conformance reports, and failure analysis reports.
• Knowledge and experience with statistical theory and data analysis tools (e.g. Excel, JMP, Galaxy, dataConductor) for design of experiments, yield reporting and modelling.
• Experience in high-speed digital ATE test platforms (e.g. Advantest, Teradyne) or equivalent rack solutions is an asset.
• Strong knowledge of high-speed serial digital interconnect components and test methodologies
• Experience with JEDEC, and/or Mil quality requirements.

Why Join Us?

• Work on advanced semiconductor technologies powering next-generation optical and analog systems
• Gain full exposure to the product lifecycle from conce