Staff Engineer Product Engineering

Infineon Technologies; Malacca City; On-site; MYR 78,120 - 145,080; Full time

Job summary

Infineon Technologies is seeking an experienced Product Engineer to support field returns and production deviation assessment. You will coordinate failure analysis and steer special lot clearance while driving cost reductions and yield improvements across multiple sites.

The role demands strong analytical skills, problem solving, and the ability to communicate effectively within a diverse, matrix organization and with external stakeholders globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher engineering degree in Electrical / Electronics / Physics / Microelectronics / Semiconductor Technology or related field.
• PhD would be a plus with industry experience in product engineering.

Responsibilities

• Support and drive assessment of field returns and production deviations, coordinating failure analysis and technical interpretation.
• Take responsibility for special lot clearance and actively manage associated risks.
• Identify and drive cost reduction potentials for released products, e.g. through reduction of test costs and evaluating technical implications.
• Responsible for yield optimization for released products across frontend and backend production sites.
• Become an expert in statistical data evaluation and pursue continual improvement of methods and tooling for the product engineering team.
• Align technical evaluations and decisions with cross-functional stakeholders in an international, multicultural environment.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Python

VBA

Communication skills

Decision making

Education

Engineering degree

PhD preferred

Tools

Python

VBA

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Support and drive the assessment of field returns and production deviations, e.g. coordinating further steps as physical and electrical failure analysis including their technical interpretation.
• Take responsibility for special lot clearance and actively manage associated risks.
• Identify and drive cost reduction potentials for released products, e.g. through reduction of test costs and evaluating technical implications.
• Responsible for yield optimization for released products covering multiple frontend and backend production sites.
• Become an expert in statistical data evaluation, strive for continuous improvement of our methodology and tooling landscape to enable the entire product engineering team.
• Align technical evaluations, conclusions and derived decisions with a wide variety of cross‑functional stakeholders in an international, multicultural working environment.

Qualifications & Skills

• A degree in Engineering (Electrical / Electronics / Physics / Microelectronics / Semiconductor Technology). A PhD would be a plus with 5 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, ideally in the role of Product Engineering.
• Good analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Good methodology development skills.
• Knowledge of scripting tools, such as Python, VBA, would be a plus.
• Decision‑making as well as communication skills in a complex matrix organization & customer/stakeholder management.
• Strong communication skills.

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