Director, Reliability Engineering

Company Overview:

MACOM
designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center,
Telecommunication, and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in
Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout
North America, Europe, and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001
international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has
more than 75 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si,
GaAs, and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational
facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. View our facilities at In
addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represent a key core competency
within our business.

MACOM
sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a
direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives, and leading
industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to
give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Job Title: Director, Reliability Engineering

Location: MACOM North Carolina Semiconductor Center
– RTP

Position
Overview:

This position will manage our technology development semiconductor reliability and failure
analysis functions within our advanced technology development team.
Additionally, this role is responsible for customer engagement on reliability
related issues and expected to influence reliability strategy and execution
across MACOM. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise across a
broad spectrum of semiconductor technologies including wide band-gap, group
III-V and group IV technologies (GaN, SiC, GaAs and SiGe) and integrated
systems, proven leadership in building and scaling teams, and a strong track
record of driving reliability and failure analysis standards and methodologies
across the industry.

Key
Responsibilities:

Candidate will have hands-on responsibilities and lead cross-functional teams for the qualification and release to manufacture of next-generation semiconductor process and product platforms using internal and external foundry processes. Position will report to the Senior Director of GaN Technology. Specific responsibilities include:

• Design and execution of experiments to optimize the reliability, performance and yields.
• Influence both process and product reliability strategies across MACOM's B.U.'s to improve process/product reliability, reduce cost and improve efficiency of execution.
• Build and manage a high performing reliability and Failure Analysis teams supporting MACOM's broad process and product portfolios.
• Develop and implement reliability qualification strategies for advanced semiconductor devices and packages (discrete, integrated circuits and power modules).
• Responsible for exerting influence on development projects to ensure product reliability is a key consideration.
• Manage all process qualification activities and work with MACOM's BU's product reliability teams providing direction, guidance and support for all direct and indirect reports.
• Identify opportunities for reliability improvement in current processes and products and work within the product commercialization process to realize these improvements in successive generations of designs.
• Responsible for ensuring that sufficient equipment and people resources are in place and allocated appropriately to meet project schedules.
• Influence semiconductor foundry partners and packaging suppliers to complete reliability tests and provide data in a consistent format that meets MACOM's expectations.
• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary reliability and failure analysis team.
• Collaborate with R&D, NPI, Quality, Operations, and Customer Service to ensure robust product reliability and timely issue resolution.
• Drive industry engagement through standards development (JEDEC, AEC) and represent the company in technical committees and conferences.
• Support government contracts and ensure compliance with DoD/DoE requirements.
• Provide technical leadership in customer interactions, including presentations and issue resolution.

Key
Competencies & Skills required:

• Significant customer engagement experience on reliability related issues.
• Experience of influencing reliability and execution strategy in technology development and across B.U.'s.
• Detailed knowledge of semiconductor device physics, reliability and associated failure modes and mechanisms.
• Advanced knowledge of compound semiconductors including processing, preferably with experience in GaAs, GaN, SiC, SiGe, InP, CMOS, Si PIN diodes, integrated systems (board/module level) based technologies.
• Understanding of the key elements of standard Qualification procedures (Telcordia, MIL_STD, JEDEC, IPC, etc.).
• Knowledgeable in Thermal/Electrical/Mechanical package reliability analysis and simulation.
• Experience in driving Design for Reliability (DFR) in a stage-gate NPI process.
• Skilled in the use of statistical software applications such as JMP or Minitab.
• Leadership, assertiveness, ability to be a team player with positive attitude. Excellent communication and presentation skills (both written and verbal) are required.

Job
Requirements / Experience:

• Ph.D. or M.S. in Physics, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 20+ years of experience of increasing responsibility in areas of semiconductor reliability, failure analysis and quality, with emphasis on wide band-gap technologies.
• Proven success in building and managing large technical teams and multiple labs.
• Expertise in reliability testing methodologies (HTOL, HTRB, TC, THB, ESD, etc.) and failure analysis techniques.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards (JEDEC, AEC, IEC, MIL).
• Excellent communication and leadership skills; experience with structured problem-solving (FMEA, 8D).
• Active participation in industry consortia and standards development.
• Six Sigma certified.
• Experience and comfort communicating effectively at all levels as well as with customers.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and focus cross-functional teams.
• Due to ITAR regulations, only
  candidates who are U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful
  permanent residents, or individuals granted asylum or refugee status) will be
  considered for this position. 

EEO:

MACOM
is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will
not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race,
color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin,
age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, marital
status, or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

MACOM
is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to
qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a
disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any
part of the application process, please call or email
Provide your name, phone number and the position title and
location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed, and
we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or
need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of
their jobs.