Senior Staff Engineer, Foundry

About the role

This position is responsible for technical aspects of the foundry interface with external SOS, Off the Shelf, and SOI foundry partners. The Senior Staff Foundry Engineer will drive and lead projects related to sustaining fab process.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and sustain custom and off-the-shelf technologies for pSemi and muRata at our foundry partners.
• Serve as the technical owner for governance of DRC and manufacturability inquiries, issue triage, escalation, and closure across design, CAD, and manufacturing stakeholders.
• Lead yield and quality excursions at the foundry (containment, root cause, corrective and preventive action), partnering with Product Engineering and Customer Quality; drive executive-ready technical narratives for customer-impacting events (including RMAs).
• Establish KPIs and reviews for excursion response time, recurring defect prevention, and yield learning transfer across products and technologies.
• Provide foundry and device-engineering technical leadership for technology development and sustaining, translating process and device learnings into design rules, signoff guidance, and reliability and yield guardbands.
• Own the technical change-control workflow with foundry partners (process changes, PCNs, mask and reticle changes, and wafer-fab flows), including risk assessment, qualification strategy, and internal release recommendations.
• Mentor engineers to understand device physics and its relationship to product performance.
• Serve as the front line communication channel for customer and company communication for any processing, quality, reliability, tapeout, NPI, B2B data and DRC issues on custom wafer fab processes and off the shelf wafer fab processes.
• Provide customer engineering support as technical lead on wafer fab‑related issues.
• Engage with CFTs to ensure manufacturing, DRC violations and assembly requirements are met.
• Interact with business units, supply chain, technology development teams, design, NPI and assembly experts to drive next