Director of Product Engineering

As the Director of Product Engineering, you will lead a team to create a world-class organization supporting NPI and Production activities to bring-to-market custom ASIC products for our customers.

What You’ll Do 

• Focus on strategic execution to a world-class standard.  Evaluate current systems & implement continuous improvement activities to improve department operation efficiency and productivity.
• Manage Product Engineering teams in US and overseas locations to support NPI and Production phases.  Resource planning based on project & production requirements.  Train & develop team personnel.
• Prepare project budgets and schedules, define priorities to ensure milestones are met.   Communicate any significant delays, problems, or changes affected by Product Eng to management/Customer.
• Develop strategic external partnerships to expand available services, improve support & overall costs
• Coordinate with other teams to meet product requirements.  Work with Design Eng on product design & acceptance, work with Test Eng on validation plan, characterization & target yield, and work with fab vendors to achieve targets.  Define product qualification requirements.
• Support Sales with customer presentations, project cost predictions and service contract reviews.
• Work with customers to define suitable qualification plans to meet product market requirements.

What You’ll Need

• Excellent supervisory and leadership skills in a team-oriented environment over Product Eng.
• In-depth knowledge of Semiconductor manufacturing process, qualification & reliability requirements, process control, data analysis and yield enhancement.
• Ability to educate/train/distill team on the complexities of their critical role.
• Experience working on Digital and/or mixed signal devices for broad applications (commercial, industrial, automotive, aerospace, etc)
• Good understanding of COGS, NRE and Hardware cost.
• 12+ years of relevant experience

About You

• Excellent communication skills
• Able to listen to and appreciate ideas and opinions that differ from yours
• Extremely detail oriented
• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills
• Drives for consistency
• Takes personal pride in high standard of outputs
• Self-motivated and self-managing