Senior Staff / Principal Product Engineer

About the role

Join a team redefining the future of mobility, where your innovative ideas drive next-generation technology. At indie Semiconductor, we develop cutting-edge semiconductors, photonics, and radar sensors and systems for automotive, industrial, and adjacent markets. Our innovations push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Responsibilities

• Work with Design and ATE Engineers to understand and document specification compliance requirements, test flows, test plans, test correlations, and full test coverage.
• Collaborate with Product Reliability and Package Qualification teams to define qualification test plans, establish detailed schedules, and complete AEC-Q100 qualifications and PPAP activities on schedule.
• Drive creative solutions to improve product cost margins through assembly yield, test yield, test time reduction, and scrap cost optimization while applying Automotive Zero-Defect Strategy methodologies throughout product design, manufacturing, and sustaining phases.
• Define and resolve product issues using the 8D problem-solving methodology, including identifying failure modes, affected material quantities, fallout percentages, and overall business impacts.
• Perform Process/Voltage/Temperature (PVT) corner characterization and calculate associated product datasheet limits.
• Ensure all aspects of New Product Introduction (NPI) and production manufacturing are established and documented, including hardware, BOMs, costing, MSA/Gage R&R, assembly and packaging records, CP and FT test solution releases, backend record releases, and safe launch planning and execution.
• Cook up close with foundries, planning, program management, assembly and packaging engineering, test engineering, and OSAT assembly and test vendors from tape-out through wafer-out and into production, ensuring prototype package and ATE test solution transfers meet aggressive schedules.
• Provide real-time customer support for design-, product-, and quality-related concerns.
• Continuously monitor assembly and test yields, identify opportunities for improvement, establish non-conforming criteria, and ensure timely disposition of production materials on hold by both indie and OSAT partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience as a Product Engineer within the semiconductor industry.
• Experience with ATE and bench characterization of semiconductor devices, including TX, RX, and LO.
• Working knowledge of ATE hardware engineering and test engineering support, including hardware and software setup, handler and tester troubleshooting, and rapid data analysis, diagnosis, and assessment.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data using sound statistical methodologies and effectively communicate technical information.
• Proficiency with data analysis and statistical tools such as Excel, JMP, and YieldHub.
• Strong background in product reliability and qualification standards, including JEDEC and AEC-Q100 specifications.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with experience working across cross-functional teams and external partners, including foundries, assembly and test houses, and reliability and qualification vendors.