Senior Principal Gan/Sic Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Principal GaN/SiC Reliability Engineer: Ensuring the reliability and durability of GaN and SiC products by supporting customers with reliability and lifetime predictions, developing reliability testing, and analyzing failure mechanisms. Focus on optimizing designs and processes, and providing valuable insights to enhance the overall performance and reliability of technologies.

Location: Hamburg, Manchester, or Munich. The candidate will have to travel EU, <10% of time. Munich or Manchester are a possible location, in this case a travel time of <20% should be considered.

Company

hirify.global is dedicated to being inclusive, and a proof point of this dedication is that they were the main partner of the very first Dutch Paralympic Team NL House during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

What you will do

• Develop and manage the reliability test plan for GaN/SiC products and calculate extrapolated lifetime for given mission profiles.
• Enable early identification and characterization of failure mechanisms and link to performance and lifetime limitations through simulation and predictive analytics.
• Derive lifetime models and drifts prediction for main parameters and identify fail-in-time estimation (FIT, ppm).
• Manage the concept of reliability tests with external partners and drive reliability tests and analyze reliability test results data to extract acceleration parameters.
• Collaborate closely with design, quality, product engineering, packaging, and process technology teams to drive Design for Reliability (DfR) into product development.
• Establish and lead external partnerships with universities, research consortia, and industry working groups on Power Semiconductor reliability standards and methods for wide band gap materials.

Requirements

• Master's Degree or equivalent in Experimental Physics, Electronics Engineering, or a similar discipline, PhD preferred.
• Strong knowledge of GaN and SiC semiconductor physics, or at least of one of the two technologies and the ability to learn the other.
• Minimum 7 years of experience of power semiconductor devices, ideally wide band gap and GaN HEMTs.
• Understanding of mechanical, electrical and thermal failure modes in semiconductor products, and failure analysis techniques.
• Knowledge of international quality standards such as JEDEC, AEC-Q101, AQG 324, reliability test to fail methods, and reliability test equipment.
• Fluent spoken and written English skills.

Nice to have

• Experience working within GaN and/or SiC reliability in an industrial environment is highly advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of wafer fab processes. Knowledge of assembly process preferred.
• Strong data analysis skills (JMP, MATLAB, etc.) with clear written and verbal communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• This role has a high visibility and can produce a strong impact on the business.
• hirify.global values diversity and is dedicated to being inclusive.
• hirify.global is committed to increasing women in management positions to 30% by 2030.