Senior Design Engineer

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If working for an organization with a long history of technological innovation and high advancement potential in a supportive, collaborative, and positive work environment are top considerations for your next career move, then you need to look at the opportunities at Bourns.

Bourns was founded 75 years ago with the guiding principles of providing breakthrough technology solutions, high-quality products, responsive service, and exceptional value. Those principles still hold true today and have instilled a culture that is committed to excellence and ethical operations. As a leading provider of advanced components for power conversion, circuit protection, and motion control sensing solutions, Bourns employs more than 9,000 people in 21 countries and operates 17 manufacturing centers and 15 R&D facilities.

Our customers and partners rely on Bourns to meet strict design requirements and satisfy international standards in a broad range of industries and applications. We achieve this stature because Bourns employees excel in the development of new products and continuous improvement processes that keep the company a global leader in delivering outstanding service.

April 2026

Bedford, UK

The Senior Design Engineer will design & layout new power semiconductor chips for manufacture in the Bourns Wafer Fab in Bedford or in an external wafer foundry. The designer will be part of a project team responsible for designing and releasing overvoltage and overcurrent protection products.

The Senior Design Engineer will have an in-depth understanding of wafer processing that allows the designer to act as a technology consultant for Wafer Fab process improvement activities. Important skills are those that allow the reverse engineering of competition products.

• Work with Product Line Manager, sales and application engineers to create products that meet defined new product requirements.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of Semiconductor Physics and high level of competency with Design of Experiments, wafer fabrication technology and electrical testing to design, build and assess prototype products.
• Proficient user of Silvaco or other Computer Aided Design and layout tools
• Document and present proposals for new designs and design changes for review by the product development team and investigate feedback on the product design to create an optimized device and process flow
• Work as part of the new product introduction team to achieve on-time release of new products into production.
• Personally performs complex and novel work assignments pertaining to device modeling development, and the qualification of complex technology and products.
• Completes engineering documentation package including product data sheets, to support successful new product launch and/or product/process implementation to IATF
  16949 standard or better.
• Performs and develops product characterization, test and failure analysis techniques supporting product development, enhancement, reliability and customer applications.
• Applies knowledge and experience of SPC, DOE, DFM, FMEA, and six-sigma process in all products and processes.
• Advises on new ideas, robust design/processes, and implements best practice methodology for constant improvement.
• Provides engineering support for sustaining existing semiconductor products, of which we have a wide range, and ensuring that new products may be converted from development to production status.
• Provides technical training to new engineering or plant personnel and consultations to other departments, companies and business units.
• Ensures the early participation of process and manufacturing engineering, purchasing and other functions in the development process.
• Solves chronic problems (quality, performance and cost) related to products and processes using new materials, technologies, design, SPC, DOE or other techniques.
• Informed on trends and developments in the electronics and surge protection industry through trade publications, trade shows, seminars or…