Principal Product Engineer

Job Description

IFI organization is seeking a Principal Product Engineer to provide end-to-end ownership from engineering material planning through qualification, characterization, product release and volume-production support. In this role, the principal product engineer acts as the lead within the project and owns the characterization, qualification plan, production release, and industrial activities.

Key Responsibilities

• •Own the assigned product lifecycle from concept and first silicon through qualification, production release, sustaining and end of life.
• •Drive first-silicon bring-up and debug with Design, Test, Applications teams.
• •Plan and coordinate voltage, temperature and process characterization, including production limit setting and guard-banding.
• •Create and maintain product BOMs and product lifecycle data in PLM systems such as Agile.
• •Work with planning, manufacturing, subcontractors and operations teams to remove material-flow obstacles and recover schedule gaps.
• •Own qualification planning and execution in accordance with applicable JEDEC and AEC requirements.
• •Prepare product-release documentation, datasheet compliance evidence and automotive compliance reports as applicable.
• •Monitor production data and use statistical analysis to identify and correct yield, quality and test-time deficiencies. Drive yield improvement
• •Optimize PAT, SYL, SBL, SPC and disposition limits to protect outgoing quality
• •Support fab transfer and BOM change activities
• •Support customer-return and RMA investigations by reproducing failures and assessing production test coverage.

Technical Leadership

• •Provide technical direction, sign off reviews
• •Lead technical decisions and risk resolution across Design, Product Engineering, Operations, suppliers and OSAT teams including DFX topics
• •Fully independent and recognized as subject-matter-expert
• •Influence cross-functional teams without direct authority and communicate clearly to the stakeholders.