Staff Product Engineer, Lifecycle Engineering

Location: Burlington, Canada

Job Summary:   

The Staff Product Engineer, Lifecycle Engineering supports margin improvement and sustaining activities for Semtech products, from production release to end of life, across a diverse range of markets, processes, technologies, and requirements.

In this role, you will contribute to technical investigations that impact product margins and profitability. You will assist in triaging and resolving production issues across test, foundry, and assembly domains for multiple product lines. Your involvement spans all stages of a product's lifecycle, including process changes, improvements, and ongoing maintenance. You will support the team in achieving annual business plan goals by collaborating with Quality, Operations, Marketing, NPI Product Engineering, and Test Engineering teams to ensure seamless production. You will help resolve critical production issues promptly, partner with test engineers on test and yield optimizations, support implementation of test screens for customer returns, and contribute to cross-functional team efforts.

Responsibilities:

1. Production Support & Quality Management (50%)

• First point of contact for RMA/FA/customer requests handling, and SAP updates for yield/test times

• Manage production products disposition/NCMRs

• Coordinate and complete all Product Engineering deliverables during qualifications, production transfers, and capacity ramp-ups

• Coordinate manufacturing documentation for production transfer and product maintenance

• Maintain product data and COGs in the existing management systems

2. Yield & Test Optimization (25%)

• Understand and implement yield and quality process improvements

• Perform capability analysis, margin analysis, correlation studies and yield modeling on new products

• Review and optimize coverage, test limits and guard banding

• Identify top yield loss Pareto opportunities and enact process solutions

• Understand and optimize factors that affect product yield and quality

2. Problem Resolution & Failure Analysis (15%)

• Drive the resolution of failure analysis, root cause and corrective actions for field returns

• Develop product specific failure analysis flow if appropriate

• Follow structured problem-solving methodologies to identify and eliminate sources of test fallout

• Work with Production Process/Packaging Engineering in the resolution of problems during wafer fabrication, packaging, die sort and final package test

4. Continuous Improvement & Collaboration (10%)

• Project management of the above product engineering responsibilities

• Collaborate with other engineers or teams to qualify and validate improvements

• Apply a "lessons learned" approach to ensure implementation of yield improvements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Electrical Engineer with 3-5 years of product engineering experience in the semi-conductor industry

• Strong knowledge of high speed serial digital interconnect components and test methodologies

• Experience in high speed digital ATE test platforms or equivalent rack solutions

• Experience with quality systems including corrective actions, 8D reports, non-conformance reports, and failure analysis reports

• Experience with JEDEC, and/or Mil quality requirements

• Experience with yield management tools

• Experience with project management is an asset

Demonstrated track record for:

• Introducing effective methods for product yield and quality improvement and production cost reduction

• Good decision making, problem solving abilities based on analytical/statistical approaches

• Creation and maintenance of product manufacturing documentation

• Summarizing technical plans and results through reports and presentations

• Achieving results in a multi project, cross-functional team environment

• Exercising strong leadership and communication skills in influencing peers and management

• Working with external sourcing and external subcontractors

The intent of this job description is to describe the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be required to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically included in this description.

All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
 

A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $75,000 - $100,000.  There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base salary, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education and experience, as well as job location and the value of other elements of an employee’s total compensation package.