Senior Principal Product Engineer ADAS/Radar (f/m/d)

Your responsibilities

The Principal Product Engineer is positioned in a central role for the development of new products. The role requires frequent interaction with other disciplines, such as Test Engineering, IC Design, Design for Test, Reliability, IC Validation, Front-End Innovation, Package Innovation, Quality and Industrial Operations.

The responsibilities include:

• Cover the portfolio of Product Engineering in new product introduction (NPI)

• Leadership role for the Product Engineering work package in NPI projects including delegation

• Project management role for Industrial work package or part of it in NPI projects

• Co-develop manufacturing and test flows, ensure industrial producibility

• In-depth ATE test data analytics for different purpose from development to customer support

• Test program release at different milestones during NPI

• Reliability qualification according AEC-Q100 from strategy to report

• Focus on reliability qualification strategy, stress conditions, and definition of HW and SW

• IC characterization according AEC-Q003 from strategy to report

• Ensure compliance with product datasheet and functional safety requirements

• Leadership role and strong contribution to solving problems (8D) using Six Sigma methodology

• Support for quality incidents and customer complaints, including customer communication

• Ensure that DfX methods are introduced in the design of new products

• Drive strategic improvements and innovation projects

Your team

Business line AAES is leading in mixed signal processors and front-ends for car radar applications. We lead the industry in state of the art solutions, using advanced CMOS technologies. You will be working in an international Product Engineering team with close connections to other disciplines and manufacturing sites. At BL AAES, Product Engineering is involved in new product introduction projects from the very beginning, having strong focus on the bring-up phase until product release. In addition, Product Engineering supports safe-launch and volume ramp-up while hand-over to the Sustaining Engineering team.

Your profile

The role requires deep core competences in execution, concepts and technical leadership in Product Engineering. In addition, the Principal Product Engineer needs to act as catalyst for neighboring competences, such as IC Design, Test Engineering, IC Validation, Quality and Reliability. Strong communication skills, sense of ownership, curiosity beyond boundaries, team oriented but able to work independently are personal characteristics key to success in this role.

You have:

• MsC/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics or equivalent

• >10 years of experience in a semiconductor engineering role similar to Product Engineering

• Understanding of ATE testing and basic understanding of digital/AMS/RF IC design

• Deep knowledge and experiences with reliability qualification (AEC-Q100)

• Knowledge and experience with IC characterization (AEC-Q003)

• Knowledge and hands-on experience with complex data analytics and statistics

• Advanced skills in using state of the art semiconductor test data analytics tools, e.g. Exensio

• Skills in programming languages like Python, R, C++

• Proven experiences in managing projects and according certificate

• Proven experiences in application of Six Sigma methodology and certificate

• Proven experience in customer communication on technical subjects

• Understanding of semiconductor assembly and package technology is a plus

• Understanding of RADAR/mmWave ICs and test solutions is a plus

• Experiences with requirements management and deriving test specifications / test plans is a plus

• Skills in data science, e.g., machine learning, is a plus

Furthermore, you are:

• Able to quickly grow into a lead Product Engineer position for NPI projects

• Able to drive technical teams for achieving progress on highly complex work packages

• A strong problem-solver with excellent analytical skills, quality-minded

• Enthusiastic, team player, happy to work in international and virtual teams

• Showing strong sense of ownership and initiative, self-driven

• Creative, rapid learner, cooperative

• Having a wide scope and ability to keep the big picture

• An excellent communicator, spanning technical roles, management and customers

Our offer

Business Line AAES’s product engineering team works in close collaboration with peer teams. This broadens the exposure to opportunities to learn. It also gives the possibility to develop deep core competences in specialized areas and deploy the benefits widely. Finally, the position offers excellent growth opportunities and opens the path to longer term career paths within the company. There is a lot of room for innovative ideas and you will be supported to have a continuous focus on development.

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