Director, Reliability Engineering

Company Overview:

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication, and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO
9001 international quality standard and ISO
14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 75 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs, and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. View our facilities at  In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represent a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives, and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

This position will manage our technology development semiconductor reliability and failure analysis functions within our advanced technology development team. Additionally, this role is responsible for customer engagement on reliability related issues and expected to influence reliability strategy and execution across MACOM. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise across a broad spectrum of semiconductor technologies including wide band-gap, group III-V and group IV technologies (GaN, SiC, GaAs and SiGe) and integrated systems, proven leadership in building and scaling teams, and a strong track record of driving reliability and failure analysis standards and methodologies across the industry.

Candidate will have hands‑on responsibilities and lead cross‑functional teams for the qualification and release to manufacture of next‑generation semiconductor process and product platforms using internal and external foundry processes. Position will report to the Senior Director of GaN Technology. Specific responsibilities include:

• Design and execution of experiments to optimize the reliability, performance and yields for new technology process platform development.
• Influence both process and product reliability strategies across MACOM’s B.U.’s to improve process/product reliability, reduce cost and improve efficiency of execution.
• Build and manage a high performing reliability and failure analysis team supporting MACOM’s broad process and product portfolios.
• Develop and implement reliability qualification strategies for advanced semiconductor devices and packages (discrete, integrated circuits and power modules).
• Manage all process qualification activities and work with MACOM’s BU’s product reliability teams providing direction, guidance and support for all direct and indirect reports.
• Identify opportunities for reliability improvement in current processes and products and work within the product commercialization process to realize these improvements in successive generations of designs.
• Responsible for ensuring that sufficient equipment and people resources are in place and allocated appropriately to meet project schedules.
• Influence semiconductor foundry partners and packaging suppliers to complete reliability tests and provide data in a consistent format that meets MACOM’s expectations.
• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary reliability and failure analysis team.
• Collaborate with R&D, NPI, Quality, Operations, and Customer Service to ensure robust product reliability and timely issue resolution.
• Drive industry engagement through standards development (JEDEC, AEC) and represent the company in technical committees and conferences.
• Support government contracts and ensure compliance with DoD/DoE requirements.
• Provide technical leadership in customer interactions, including presentations and issue resolution.

• Significant customer engagement experience on reliability related issues.
• Experience of influencing reliability and execution…