ON Semiconductor

FE External Manufacturing Foundry Lead Engineer

ON Semiconductor • $138K — $165K *
San Jose, CA 95123In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • MS degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, or a related field.
  • Minimum 10 years of semiconductor technology development, fab process integration, or foundry management experience.
  • Hands-on experience with SiC and/or GaN processes and device characterization.
  • Experience with managing process performance and quality to achieve Zero defect standards.
  • Demonstrated leadership in directing foundries for quality and yield improvement.
  • Knowledge of semiconductor yield improvement, power device process technology, and device physics.
  • Proficiency in data analysis, DOE, and statistical techniques, with data science knowledge being a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and optimize innovative solutions for SiC and/or GaN challenges in power devices.
  • Collaborate with internal and external teams to enhance process evaluation and device performance.
  • Manage day-to-day operations with external foundries to meet production and quality goals.
  • Benchmark and share performance insights between internal fabs and foundries.
  • Adapt to shifting priorities and manage multiple tasks to align with business needs.
  • Collaborate with Procurement and Supply Chain to ensure accurate data on work-in-progress.
  • Develop and execute strategies for foundry management, ensuring capacity and competitive pricing.

Benefits

  • Collaboration opportunities with leading teams in semiconductor engineering and production.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge technologies in power device development.
  • Opportunity for domestic and international travel, promoting professional growth.
  • Competitive opportunities for process improvement and technology transfer.
  • Exposure to diverse aspects of semiconductor manufacturing and strategic program management.
Full Job Description
Job Description

onsemi's External Manufacturing is looking for an experienced Foundry Engineer for foundry management, business units facing, technology development, foundry transfer roles:

Responsibilities

  • Develop and optimize novel solutions to SiC and/or GaN 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 process 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.


Qualifications

  • MS degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Chemistry 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 or foundry management in IDM, foundry, fabless companies.
  • Hands on experience of SiC and/or GaN 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 SiC and/or GaN.
  • Proficiency with data 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%)

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Size
30,000 employees
Market Cap
$26.4 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$234.2 million
Founded
1999
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$5.2 billion
NASDAQ
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