Senior Reliability & Field Engineering Leader, Semiconductor

Teradyne; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 333,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradyne in San Jose is seeking a Senior Reliability and Field Engineering Manager to lead Product Engineering, New Product Support, and Product Reliability across the semiconductor automated test equipment lifecycle. The role aligns product readiness, factory readiness, sustaining engineering, and installed-base support under one organization.

You will lead global managers and engineering teams, drive readiness, performance metrics, and reliability improvements, while partnering with R&D,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Engineering, Electronic/Mechanical/Computer Engineering or related field.
• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership in semiconductor equipment, electronics, complex capital equipment, manufacturing, or related industry.
• Significant leadership experience across Product Engineering, New Product Introduction, Sustaining Engineering, Product Support, Reliability Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or Customer Service Engineering.
• Experience leading managers and globally distributed technical organizations through complex product launches, escalations, and reliability improvement programs.
• Experience supporting high-volume manufacturing, customer installations, installed-base operations, and executive-level technical reviews.
• Strong technical judgment across hardware, software, diagnostics, manufacturing processes, mechanical interfaces, field performance, and reliability data.
• Ability to translate technical and operational data into priorities, decisions, investment plans, and measurable results.
• Strong communication, executive presence, customer focus, and disciplined follow-through.
• Master's degree in engineering, business, or related field preferred.
• Working knowledge of semiconductor automated test equipment and test-cell integration strongly preferred.
• Ability to travel globally based on business and customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, operating model, priorities, and resource plan for Product Engineering, New Product Support, and Product Reliability.
• Develop managers, technical leads, product engineers, support engineers, and reliability professionals across global locations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure product readiness, manufacturability, serviceability, documentation, test coverage, supply readiness, and support readiness.
• Build scalable processes, metrics, escalation paths, technical reviews, and knowledge management practices across global teams.
• Support strategic customer deployments, critical escalations, root cause investigations, corrective actions, and reliability improvement programs.
• Partner with executive leadership to communicate performance, risk, resource needs, launch readiness, and mitigation plans.

Skills

Leadership experience

Global team leadership

Executive communication

Data-driven decisions

Technical judgment

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Engineering or related field

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Teradyne in San Jose is seeking a Senior Reliability and Field Engineering Manager to lead Product Engineering, New Product Support, and Product Reliability across the semiconductor automated test equipment lifecycle. The role aligns product readiness, factory readiness, sustaining engineering, and installed-base support under one organization.

You will lead global managers and engineering teams, drive readiness, performance metrics, and reliability improvements, while partnering with R&D,