Principal NPI Product Engineer (Semiconductor)

Location: Stockholm, Sweden. Significant international travel to manufacturing operations, design centers, and customer sites is required for 25–40% of the time.

Company

Global semiconductor company developing and manufacturing semiconductor products across multiple business divisions and product lines.

What you will do

• Set the strategic vision, governance frameworks, and long-term roadmaps for product engineering across multiple divisions or product lines.
• Advise executive leadership and business unit leaders on product engineering, manufacturing capabilities, technology transitions, and enterprise decisions.
• Lead enterprise-wide yield management, performance optimization, quality excellence, and manufacturing readiness initiatives.
• Establish strategies for new product introduction, technology transfers, product ramps, yield learning, and volume production.
• Drive product engineering transformation through advanced analytics, yield management platforms, artificial intelligence applications, and next-generation engineering approaches.
• Develop a substantial product engineering organization, including talent strategies, succession planning, leadership development, and executive mentoring.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related technical field; a Master’s degree or PhD is preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in semiconductor product engineering leadership and 5+ years of executive management experience leading engineering organizations.
• Extensive experience with enterprise product strategies, yield management, quality systems, semiconductor manufacturing, test methodologies, and reliability engineering.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide transformation initiatives and managing complex technology transitions.
• Strong executive presence, strategic vision, communication skills, change management capabilities, and ability to influence C-suite leaders.
• Ability to build high-performing organizations and connect product strategies with manufacturing performance and business outcomes.

Culture & Benefits

• Work spans global manufacturing operations, design centers, customer sites, multiple business divisions, and geographical regions.
• Significant international travel, representing 25–40% of working time.
• Authority to establish product engineering policies, governance frameworks, performance standards, and quality requirements.
• Opportunity to lead transformational initiatives focused on manufacturing excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.