Senior Foundry Engineer: High-Voltage Process & Yield Lead

Power Integrations; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Power Integrations in San Jose, CA seeks an experienced Senior Process Engineer to optimize high-voltage semiconductor processes across external foundries. You will ensure reproducible results, coordinate with fab engineers, and drive yield improvements through data-driven analysis.

The role requires a strong background in semiconductor processing and device physics, plus extensive experience with yield optimization and reliability challenges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in EE, Physics, Materials Science, or chemical engineering with emphasis on semiconductor processing and device physics.
• Minimum 12 years experience in the semiconductor industry with process engineering, yield optimization or device characterization.
• Experience monitoring and improving product yields using test data, SPC data and in-line fab data.
• Experience reviewing yield information with product engineers and solving reliability problems.
• Familiarity with device measurement techniques for manual characterization and automated data gathering.
• Experience with documentation to maintain foundry agreements and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Optimize and install high-voltage process technologies in external foundries.
• Ensure PI's technologies run in multiple foundries with consistent results and good control.
• Maintain excellent communications with external fab engineers for timely issue resolution.
• Monitor process technologies via PCM data, inline data, and final test results to optimize test yield.
• Analyze and optimize yield of high-voltage smart-power products across families.
• Correlate product yield with process control monitors and in-fab SPC data.
• Provide feedback to external fab engineers and monitor reliability testing of new products.
• Work with device, packaging and reliability engineers to identify root causes and plan corrective actions.
• Develop understanding of process/package interactions and support scheduling of engineering lots.

Skills

Process engineering

Yield optimization

Device characterization

External foundries

Statistical analysis

Cross-functional communication

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE, Physics, Materials Science, or chemical engineering

Job description

Power Integrations in San Jose, CA seeks an experienced Senior Process Engineer to optimize high-voltage semiconductor processes across external foundries. You will ensure reproducible results, coordinate with fab engineers, and drive yield improvements through data-driven analysis.

The role requires a strong background in semiconductor processing and device physics, plus extensive experience with yield optimization and reliability challenges.