The Foundry Lead Engineer will manage GaN/SiC process development, oversee foundry operations, improve product quality, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while ensuring effective outsourcing strategies.
onsemi’s External Manufacturing is looking for an experienced Foundry Engineer for foundry management, business units facing, technology development, foundry transfer roles:
- Develop and optimize novel solutions to GaN/SiC challenges for the next generations of onsemi Power devices. This includes taking ideas from conception, through development to deployment in manufacturing.
- Be a lead engineer and work with internal teams and foundries to drive GaN/SiC process/device development and evaluation, device performance improvement, FE-BE integration, CIP, yield/quality improvement, process/product qualification, technology transfer, and ramp to mass production.
- Manage existing day-to-day operations with external foundries to meet delivery, capacity, cycle time, delivery, quality, and cost needs. Set performance goals and manage the results. This includes driving yield, quality and productivity improvements, change management control, and being able to influence suppliers to achieve required results.
- Collaborate with internal fabs and foundries to benchmark performance and share learning on quality, yield, performance, and systems.
- Organize and demonstrate ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and react to shifting priorities to meet business & organization needs.
- Collaborate with Procurement & Supply Chain Operation counterpart on insource/outsource & other strategic program requirements and to ensure external foundry systems accurately reflect, update and report WIP information and data.
- Collaborate with internal teams, including supply chain, business units, procurement, legal, and management to develop and execute a foundry management strategy to ensure adequate capacity and competitive pricing for onsemi’s products.
- MS degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material Science or related area.
- Minimum 10 years of experience working with semiconductor technology development, fab process integration, device engineering, product engineering, foundry engineering and/or foundry management in IDM, foundry, fabless companies.
- Hands on experience of GaN/SiC process module, process integration, device and characterization.
- Proactively manage and anticipate process performance, quality, change management to achieve Zero defect.
- Ability to lead, execute plans effectively and direct foundries to improve product quality, yield, cost, cycle time to achieve organizational goals.
- Knowledge of statics, yield improvement, power device process technology, device physics, and semiconductor development/manufacturing of GaN/SiC.
- Proficiency with data process and device analysis, DOE, and statistical techniques is assumed. Data science experience is a plus.
- Solid experience in the semiconductor industry, preferably in Power Device related fields.
- Knowledge of semiconductor processing, solid-state device physics, and Epi/SiC/GaN of thin film deposition or plasma physics is desirable.
- Flexible in domestic or international travel (up to 25%)
onsemi is excited to share the base salary range for this position is $164,105-279,105 exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. The final pay rate for the successful candidate will depend on geographic location, skills, education, experience, and/or consideration of internal equity of our current team members. We also offer a competitive benefits package. https://www.onsemi.com/site/pdf/Benefits-Summary-USA.pdf
About Us
onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.
More details about our company benefits can be found here:
https://www.onsemi.com/careers/career-benefits
onsemi is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, or local laws.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact [email protected] for assistance.
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