Principal Product Manager - DRAM Probe Cards

Job Title

Principal Product Manager - DRAM Probe Cards

Role Summary

Lead product strategy, roadmap and lifecycle management for FormFactor's DRAM wafer-level probe card portfolio. Work cross-functionally with R&D, Applications Engineering, Sales, Operations and Finance to define product requirements, commercialize new technologies, and drive revenue and profitability.

Experience Level

Senior - typically requires 12+ years of related experience or equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

Own strategy, customer engagement, and commercialization for DRAM probe card products.

• Define multi-generation product roadmap and market requirements for DRAM probe cards.
• Translate DRAM device, wafer-test and manufacturing trends into product specifications.
• Create MRDs, business cases and prioritize investments based on market opportunity and financial return.
• Engage directly with major DRAM customers to capture roadmap and qualification requirements.
• Lead cross-functional NPI and commercialization activities to ensure successful product launches and production ramps.
• Monitor product performance metrics: revenue, design wins, market share, margins and adoption.
• Support pricing, positioning, demand planning and sales enablement for strategic opportunities.
• Represent the product line at customer reviews, industry forums and technical conferences.

Requirements

Must-have technical and professional experience relevant to DRAM wafer-level test and probe-card products.

• Proven experience in the semiconductor industry with hands-on knowledge of wafer probing, probe cards, ATE and wafer probers.
• Deep understanding of DRAM wafer-sort/test flows, high-parallelism memory testing, and cost-of-test tradeoffs.
• Ability to translate customer technical requirements into product specifications and lead complex cross-functional programs.
• Strong analytical and business skills to evaluate market opportunity, pricing, margin and investment tradeoffs.
• Excellent customer-facing communication and presentation skills; able to engage engineering and executive audiences.
• Experience with DRAM products (e.g., DDR, LPDDR, GDDR, HBM) and DRAM test methodologies (DC, functional, speed, reliability).
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally to support major memory customers.
• Nice-to-have: prior product management, technical marketing, applications engineering or product engineering experience in memory/test domains.
• Nice-to-have: experience improving manufacturability, lead time and product cost structure for complex hardware products.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Semiconductor Engineering, Physics or a related technical discipline is listed as the baseline. Master's degree in Engineering or an MBA and PhD are noted as advantageous. The posting also allows equivalent practical experience in lieu of formal degrees.

About the Company

Company: FormFactor

Headquarters: Livermore, California, United States

FormFactor provides test and measurement technologies and services for the semiconductor industry across the product lifecycle - including characterization, modeling, reliability, design debug, qualification and production test. The company serves customers globally through facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America.