Sr. Staff Foundry Engineer

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

Requirements

• Optimize and install high-voltage process technologies in external semiconductor foundries.
• Guarantee PI's technologies running in multiple foundries give equivalent results, are well centered and in control.
• Establish excellent communications with the external fab engineers to ensure that all issues are dealt with in a timely manner.
• Monitor process technologies via statistical analysis of PCM, in-line data, and final test results in order to optimize final test yield.
• Analyze and optimize yield of several families of high-voltage smart-power products.
• Establish correlations between product yield, process control monitors, andin-fab SPC data.
• Provide feedback to the external fab engineers.
• Monitor reliability testing of new products and technologies.
• Work with device, packaging and reliability engineers to establish root cause of any failures and plan corrective action.
• Develop understanding of process/package interactions.
• Support design & product engineering with scheduling & expediting engineering lots and tape outs.

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 experience in process engineering, yield optimization or device characterization. Experience in working with external foundries will be helpful.
• Should have experience with monitoring and improving product yields using a variety of information - product test data, process control monitor data, and in-line fab data.
• Should have experience in reviewing product yield information with product engineers, and in solving reliability problems.
• Should be familiar with device measurement techniques for both manual characterization and automated process control monitor data gathering. Should be familiar with the design of process control monitor test structures.
• Familiarity with product test and analog circuit design will be helpful.
• Experience creating or maintaining documentation necessary to maintain foundry agreements and procedures.