Director of Module Manufacturing

Renesas Electronics; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Global exposure

Job summary

Renesas Electronics is seeking a Director of Module Manufacturing to lead all aspects of manufacturing for its Module business within the Performance Core Power group. The role focuses on embedding a quality-first mindset across the product lifecycle and ensuring delivery of high-quality products that meet customer expectations.

The position requires 10+ years in product or quality engineering, a strong background in semiconductor supply chains, and a proven ability to drive root-cause analysis

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product or quality engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, with a master's preferred.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and people skills, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Solid understanding of new product development procedures, semiconductor supply chain and production environments
• Expertise with statistical analysis, structured problem solving methodologies, and making data-driven decisions
• Ability to manage supplier excursions and customer escalations
• Knowledge of commercial and automotive quality standards

Responsibilities

• Champion and enforce quality standards across all phases of execution.
• Align customer, vendor, and internal requirements to ensure seamless delivery.
• Own and resolve quality issues end-to-end, driving corrective and preventive actions.
• Lead continuous quality improvement initiatives using data-driven insights.
• Serve as primary liaison to customer QA teams, ensuring alignment and responsiveness.
• Embed customer-specific quality requirements into design, development, and production.
• Lead cross-functional teams to rapidly resolve critical quality issues.
• Drive adoption of structured problem-solving methodologies across the organization.
• Manage external ISO/IATF audits, ensuring compliance and closure of non-conformances.

Skills

Quality leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Statistical analysis

Data-driven decisions

Supplier management

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Renesas is hiring a Director of Module Manufacturing to lead all aspects of Manufacturing for its rapidly growing Module business within the Performance Core Power group. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for embedding a quality-first mindset across the entire product lifecycle and ensuring delivery of products that meet and exceed customer expectations.

You will define and drive quality standards, processes, and metrics across internal teams and key external partners, including module manufacturers and critical suppliers. This role owns end-to-end quality—leading root-cause analysis, driving swift resolution of issues, and ensuring robust corrective and preventive actions from development through post-launch. You will also negotiate with our customers on the manufacturing and quality specifications to be adopted throughout our manufacturing flows with the objective of ensuring timely and quality delivery of the finished products.

A core priority is advancing a “shift-left” quality approach, embedding rigor early in design and development to prevent issues before they occur. You will also champion structured problem-solving methodologies to enable rapid containment, protect customers, and minimize business impact. This will extend to the development of our products. It will also extend to the key suppliers for our products and manufacturing flows, as well as the ODMs that our customers use as they ramp and test our products in their systems.

Success in this role will be measured by timely introduction of our products, reduced quality incidents, speed and effectiveness of issue resolution, and your ability to influence and elevate quality across a global organization.

This is a highly visible opportunity to work cross-functionally with global teams and shape quality strategy for cutting-edge products serving data center, AI, and computing power markets.

Job Description

Champion and enforce quality standards across all phases of execution.

Align customer, vendor, and internal requirements to ensure seamless delivery.

Own and resolve quality issues end-to-end, driving corrective and preventive actions.

Lead continuous quality improvement initiatives using data-driven insights.

Serve as primary liaison to customer QA teams, ensuring alignment and responsiveness.

Embed customer-specific quality requirements into design, development, and production.

Lead cross-functional teams to rapidly resolve critical quality issues.

Drive adoption of structured problem-solving methodologies across the organization.

Manage external ISO/IATF audits, ensuring compliance and closure of non-conformances.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in product or quality engineering teams

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field. Masters preferred.

Excellent communication, organizational, and people skills, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams

Solid understanding of new product development procedures, semiconductor supply chain and production environments

Expertise with statistical analysis, structured problem solving methodologies, and making data-driven decisions

Ability to manage supplier excursions and customer escalations

Knowledge of commercial and automotive quality standards

Additional Information

The expected annual pay range for this position is $196,000 - $240,000.This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities. Please note thatthe finaloffer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose, To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21,000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries, we offer the opportunity to work on world‑leading technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT, shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future.

At Renesas, TAGIE is our culture, grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. It shapes how we work, grow and deliver on our purpose together. This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read ourDiversity & Inclusion Statement .

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.