Senior Product Engineer (f/m/d)

Job Title

Senior Product Engineer (f/m/d)

Role Summary

Responsible for end-to-end product engineering (PE) for integrated circuits from concept through mass production, focusing on product quality, test readiness, yield, and production release.

Works on a cross-functional team with Design, Applications, Test, Quality, Project Management and Operations to define characterization, test plans, and production limits.

Experience Level

Senior-level. The posting requests approximately 5–8 years of experience in IC manufacturing and development.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include ownership of PE deliverables, test definition, and production readiness:

• Own PE lifecycle from concept to mass production, ensuring quality and on-time delivery.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Design, Apps, Test, Quality, Project Management and Operations.
• Define and execute ATE characterization plans, device risk assessments, ramp readiness and mass-production release activities.
• Support ATE test plan definition, test coverage reviews, and correlate test programs with test hardware.
• Generate and manage characterization reports in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Define mass-production test limits using guard banding, outlier screening and statistical limit-setting.
• Optimize lot disposition, yield and throughput using statistical methods and DOE.
• Provide customer-facing technical support for high-volume consumer products and support excursion containment for suppliers/customers.
• Improve data analysis tools and methodologies to support PE and yield activities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring for graduate and junior product engineers.

Requirements

Must-have skills and experience, followed by desirable additions.

• Must-have: 5–8 years experience in IC manufacturing and development.
• Must-have: Background in product engineering, test engineering, wafer process, quality, applications, or design.
• Must-have: Ability to lead cross-functional and global teams to achieve PE milestones.
• Must-have: Strong communication, teamwork, interpersonal, critical-thinking and decision-making skills.
• Must-have: Familiarity with statistics and common data-analysis techniques; comfortable handling large data volumes.
• Must-have: Familiar with continuous improvement and yield-improvement methodologies; able to manage demanding workloads.
• Nice-to-have: Knowledge of failure analysis techniques, ATE test development and methodology, bench characterization techniques.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with data-analysis tools (e.g. TIBCO Spotfire), DOE methodologies, and PLM tools (e.g. Agile).

Education Requirements

University degree in a technical discipline such as Electronics, Physics, Chemistry or Mechatronics (or equivalent technical degree) is requested.

About the Company

Company: Renesas

Headquarters: Hitachinaka, Japan

Renesas is a global leader in embedded semiconductor solutions, providing high-quality products across automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT sectors. With over 22,000 employees in more than 30 countries, the company focuses on scalable solutions that enhance user experience and drive innovation while committed to sustainability and energy efficiency.